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Central  labor  union  of 
Worcester,  Mass. 

Title: 

Illustrated  history  of  the 
Central  labor  union  and 

Place: 

Worcester 

Date: 

1899 


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INTRODUCTION. 


TN  presenting  to  the  public  the  History  of  the  Labor  Organ- 
i  izations,  comprising  both  the  Central  Labor  Union  and  the 
Building  Trades  Council  of  Worcester  and  vicinity,  we  desire  to 
return  our  thanks  to  all  who  have  kindly  aided  us  in  making 
a  success  of  our  undertaking;  especially  are  our  thanks  due  to 
the  merchants  of  our  city  for  the  uniform  kindness  they  have 
evinced  in  calling  public  attention  to  their  wares  through  this 
medium.  While  here  publicly  tendering  our  thanks  for  their  prac- 
tical aid,  we  cannot  refrain  from  asking  all  who  wish  us  well 
(members  or  not)  to  peruse  the  announcements  carefully,  and  when 
the  occasion  requires  to  remember  them  in  such  a  practicar manner 
that  it  may  cause  their  support  to  be  substantially  rewarded.  That 
errors  have  occurred  in  so  great  a  number  of  names,  dates  and 
statements,  is  probable,  and  that  names  have  been  omitted  that 
should  have  been  inserted,  is  quite  certain.  We  can  only  state  that 
we  have  exercised  more  than  ordinary  diligence  and  care  in  this 
difficult  and  complicated  feature  of  bookmaking. 

We  take  this  occasion  to  express  the  hope  that  the  information 
contained  in  this  work  will  not  prove  devoid  of  interest  and  value, 
though  we  are  fully  conscious  that  the  brief  statistics  of  our  local 
organizations,  the  scope  of  the  work  enables  us  to  give,  are  by  no 
means  exhaustive. 

We  can  only  hope  that  it  may  prove  an  aid  to  future  historians. 
While  thanking  our  patrons  and  friends  generally  for  the  cordiality 
with  which  our  efforts  have  been  seconded,  we  leave  the  work  to 
secure  that  favor  which  earnest  endeavor  ever  wins  from  a  dis- 
criminating public,  hoping  they  will  bear  in  mind,  should  errors 
be  noted,  that 

He  who  expects  a  perfect  work  to  see, 
Expects  what  ne'er  was,  nor  yet  shall  be." 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


OUR  PATRONS. 


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Amalgamated  Ass'n  of  Street  Rail- 
way Employes  of  America,  Div.  22. 

. . . . ' 'officers'    Photographs 

169,      Biographies     241,     History  131 
"Ancient  Willow"   and   "Fountain 
iSpring"  Willow  Park,  Hon.  Thos. 

H.  Dodge's  Grounds 69 

Banking,  Hints  on 373 

Belmar  The 56-d 

Boynton  Hall 107 

Bricklayers',  Masons  and  Plasterers' 

Union Biographies  183 

Building  Trades'  Council  of  Worces- 
ter and  vicinity 

Officers' Photographs  147,  149  and 
151,    Biographies     177,     179    and  180 
Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America 
No.  23... Officers'  Pho- 
tographs 153,  Biographies  183  and  184 

Central  Church 48-f 

Central  Labor  Union  of  Worcester 
and  vicinity Offi- 
cers' Photographs  139,  141,  143and 
145,  Biographies  171,  173,  174  and  175 
Cigarmakers'  Union  No.  92 Offi- 
cers' Photographs  155,  Biographies  184 

City  Hall.  1848 26 

City  Hali;  1898 26  and  27 

Constitution  of  the  United  State? 289 

Constitution  of  the   United  States, 

Amendments  to 313 

Core  Makers'  International  Union  of 
America  No.  15 Officers'  Photo- 
graphs 157,  Biographies  184,  185 
and    186,  History    129,   Preamble  132 

Court  House,  1898 26  and  28 

Day  Building 119 

Dodge  Block 70 

Dodge  Thos.  H.  Hon.  residence 72 

Early  History  of  Worcester 3:^ 

Ely  Lvman  A.  residence 56-e 

English  High  School 40-e 

Fire  Department  Headquarters 31 

Free  Public  Library  Building 40-d 

Hildreth  Samuel  E.  residence 56-g 

History  Committee 15 

History  of  Worcester 33 

Holy  Cross  College 56-c 

Homestead  and  Homesteaders 329 

Houghton  C.  C.  Bldg 48-a 

How  to  Mix  Paints  for  Tints 359 

Introduction 3 

Iron  Molders'  Union  No.  5 

Officers'  Photographs 

159,     Biographies    187,     History    134 
Kingsley   Laboratories,     Worcester 
Academy 40-g 


PAGE. 

Knowles  Bldg 108 

Lasters'  Union  No.  162 Offi- 
cers' Photographs  161,  Biographies  187 

Law  of  Partnership 355 

Legal  Points 357  and  365 

Mechanics'  Hall,  1857 48-b 

Mechanics'  Hall,  Audience  room 48  c 

Miscellaneous  Laws 325 

National     Brotherhood     Electrical 

Workers  of  America Preamble  133 

National  Government 353 

Naturalization  Laws 325 

Object  of  Unions 245 

Odd  Fellows'  State  Home 71 

Old  South  Church,  1753 26 

Painters  and  Decorators  of  America 

No.  48 Officers'  Photographs 

163,     Biographies     1h7,      History  130 

Parliamentary  Rules  and  Usages 333 

Patents,  All  About  Them 347 

Philosophy  of  the  Ljibor  Movement..  251 

Pleasant  Street  Baptist  Church  48-g 

Plumbers'  Union  No.  4 Offi- 
cers* Photographs  165,  Biographies  189 
Poem,    The    Ancient    Willow     and 
Fountain    Spring,    Willow    Park, 
Hon.  Thos.  H.  Dodge's  Grounds...    68 

Pohtechnic  Institute 48-e 

Postoffice 29 

Single  Tax,  What  Is  It? 361 

Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Monument 30 

South  Unitarian  Church 48-h 

State  Armory 40-a 

Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters  and 

Helpers  No.  25 

Officers'  Photographs  167.  Biogra- 
phies 240,  History  135,  Preamble  134 

St.  John's  Church 56-b 

Union  Church 56-a 

Union  Passenger  Station 40-b 

United  States  Government  and  Re- 
ligion   345 

United  States  Postal  Regulations 351 

Unity  Parsonage 56-f 

What  Does  Labor  Want? 267 

WMnslow  Surgery  City  Hospital 40-h 

Worcester,  Its  Early  History 33 

Worcester  of  To-dav 37 

Worcester  Art  Museum,  1898..26  and  48-d 

Worcester's  First  Mayor 25 

Worcester's  Present  Mayor 25 

AVorcester  Society  of  Antiquity.. 40-f 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association..    58 
Young  Women's  Christian  Associa- 
tion Building 40-c 


PAGE. 

Adams  EI  wood,  hardware,  tools,  etc.,  156  Main     256 

Adams  &  Powers,  moldings,  doors,  sash,  blinds,  171,  173  Union     372 
American  Nickel  Works,  91  Foster     356 

Atherton  F.  A.,  refrigerators  and  store  fixtures, 

183,  185,  187  Park  avenue     324 
Athy  Andrew,  undertaker,  16  Green     304 

Baker  Lead  Mfg.  Co.,  plumbing  supplies,  2,  4,  6  Cherry     188 

Balcom  William  H.,  laundry,  17  Church     342 

Baldwin  Cycle  Chain  Co.,  Baldwin  Detachable  Chains,     103  and  368 
Ball  Horace  F.,  trucking  and  boarding  and  feeding  stables, 

28  Thomas     366 
Ballard  Granite  Quarries,  624  State  Mutual  bldg 

Barker  &  Nourse,  architects,  425  Main,  cor.  Front     364 

Barr  H.  G.  &  Co.,  tool  grinders  and  drilling  machinery,  348 

Barstow  M.,  Waverly  bakery,  76  Waverly     288 

Bay  State  Coal  Co.,  office  70  Front,  yard  107  Gold  116  and  117 

Bay  State  House,        Main,  cor.  Exchange  next  page  and  89 

Bay  State  StampingCo.,  the  Bennett  Pedal,     17Hermon     77  and  326 
Beaver  Brook  Mfg.  Co.,  woolen  mfrs.,  548  Park  ave 

Becker's  Business  College,  "  492  Main     284 

Bernstrom  Ben.  J.,  funeral  director,  113  Thomas     118  and  360 

Bertels  B.  J  ,  cooked  meats,  etc.,  15  Church,  16  Pleasant     288 

Bicknell  J.  F.,  lumber,  16  Mulberry     266 

Blake  Geo.  F.  Jr.  &  Co.,  iron,  steel  and  metals, 

junction  Bridge,  Mechanic  and  Foster     256 
Blanford  Brick  &  Tile  Co.,  10  East  Worcester  street       42 

BoeppleGeorge,  meats,  cheese,  herrings,  etc.,  30  Mulberry  87  and  292 
Book  Hugo,  florist  and  landscape  gardener,  1052  Main     304 

BoutelleG.S.  Co.,  pictures  and  moldings,  256 Main     nextpage  and  95 
Boynton's  Prescription  Pharmacy,  189  Pleasant     312 

Brannon  Henry,  President  Board  of  Aldermen,  63 

Brown  C.  F.,  decorator,  tinting,  painting,  106  Union     310 

Brown  W.  T.,  tailor.  Main,  cor.  Pleasant,  entrance  5  Pleasant     308 
Brownville  Maine  Slate  Co.,  14  East  Worcester  street       42 

Brunelle  F.  X.,  Brunelle  Steam  or  Hot  Water  Heater, 

10  Coburn  avenue     166 
Buffington  Pharmacy  Co.,  300  and  306  Main 

Burleigh  John  <fe  Co.,  steamfitting  and  plumbing,     5  Chandler     252 
Burtis  Geo.  H.,  flies  and  angling  outfits, 

431  State  Mutual  Building     286 
Cady  I.  D.,  groceries  and  meats,  116,  118  Foster     127  and  176 


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OUR  PATRONS. 


BAY  STATE  HOUSE, 


MAIN.  COR.  EXCHANGE  STS.. 
\A/^ORCESTER,  MASS.     *     *     * 


A    FIRST    CLASS    HOTEL    IN    SECOND   CITY    IN    MASSACHUSETTS. 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLANS. 
Passenger  Elevator,       ^      Steam  Heat,       -^       All  Modern  Improvements. 

LADIES'  AND  GENTS'  RESTAURANT. 


OPEN    PROTWt    T"    TO    1   H.  7Wt. 


We  Cater  to  Theatre  Parties, 


Coach  at  Depot  for  all  Trains. 
Electric  Cars  passing  the  Hotel  connect  with  all  Trains. 


FRANK  P.  DOUGLASS.  PROP'R. 


Cahill  Jas.  P.  J.,  practical  plumber, 
Callahan  Bros.,  undertakers, 
Callahan  Supply  Co.,  plumbers'  supplies, 
Carter  Chas.  F.  &  Co.,  grocers, 
Caswell  F.  A.  &  Co.,  undertakers, 


PAGE. 

9  Prospect    44  and  126 
7  Temple     298 
8-14  Mulberry     164 
37,  41  Lincoln 

21  Pearl     288 


Chad  wick  John  F.  &  Co.,  coal,  wood,  kindlings, 

24  Pleasant,  branch  1083  Main     302 
Cherry  &  Gordon,  groceries,  wood,  coal,  hay,  grain, 

^212,  214  Chandler     266 
Childs  Business  College,  112  Front       32 

Claflin  Dental  Mfg.  Co.,  dental  materials,  42  Southbridge 

Clark  Geo.  H.  &  Co.,  paints,  oils,  glass,  etc.,  6  Norwich 

Clee  Frederick,  shoes,  gents  furnishings,  670  Southbridge     302 

Clemence  George  H.,  architect,  205  Walker  bldg.,      405  Main     344 
Coates'  Clipper  Mfg.  Co.,  237  Chandler    64  and  318 

Coburn  A.  A.,  boat  and  canoe  livery, 

Lincoln  Park,  Lake  Quinsigamond     264 
Coburn  Geo.  A.,  laundry,  28  Bellevue     284 

CoflSn  E.  W.,  store  fixtures,   show  cases,  safes,   refrigerators, 

counters,  etc.,  258  Main 

Collier   F.   W.   &   Co.,  gas   heating   apparatus   and   laundry 

machinery,  86  Foster    356 


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PAGE. 


Collins  &  Southworth,  Franklin  Square  Shoe  Store,     533  Main  334 

Columbia  Electric  Co.,                                                     28  Pearl  46 
Conant  A.  W.,  grocery,  meats  and  provisions,       409  Park  ave 

Conlin  Peter  A.,  ales,  wines,  liquors,  cigars,       84  Southbridge  296 
Converse  E.,  (Worcester  Ferrule  and  Mfg.  Co.)         100  Beacon 
Cook  C.  B.  Laundry  Co.,  C.  L.  Burges,  treas.,  10  Barton  Place 

Cooley  Henry  P.,  furnaces,  general  jobbing,                145  Main  322 
Cote  Chas.  E.,  merchant  tailor,                                   8  Mechanic 

Cowee  E.  A.,  flour,  feed,  grain,    4  Washington  Sq.,  14  Lincoln  358 

Creamerie  The,  restaurant,                                               Pearl  st,  181 

Cromb  Geo.  O.,  groceries,  provisions,   154,  156,  162 J  Chandler  280 

Crompton  &  Knowles  Loom  Works,                           104,  105  and  106 

Daesen  J.  J.,  bicycle  repairing,  etc.,      385  Park  ave.,     2»  8  and  302 

Daly  S.  E.  &  Co.,  ales,  wines,  liquors,                  185  Cambridge  312 

Daniels,  Cornell  Co  ,  flour,  264 

Daniels  Thos.  M.  Dr.,  dentist,              405  Main,  Walker  bldg.,  308 

Darling  &  Rhodes,  bar  glassware  and  bottles,  opp.  Union  station  322 

Dewhurst  Geo.  C.  (estate)  Carriage  Repository,          17-19  Park  272 
Dixon  Geo.  S.,lubricatingoils,  mill  supplies,  painters' materials, 

222,  224  Front  254 
Dodge  Thomas  H.,  Hon.     opp.  64,  65,  66,  67,  68,  69,  70,  71  and  72 

Douglass  &  Galvin,  dining  rooms,           12  Washington  square  168 


G.  S.  BOUTELLE  CO., 


256  MAIN  ST., 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


Picture  Store  Exclusive. 

PICTURE  Framing  in  the  newest  designs. 

PICTURES  Cleaned  and  restored. 

PICTURES  In  all  description,  new  and  old  Masters. 

PICTURES  In  Color,  Oil,  Water,  Photographs  and  Platinum. 


G.  S.  BOUTELLE  CO. 


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OUR  PATRONS. 


Doyle  Peter  A.,  wines  and  liquors, 

Drury  F.  L.,  laundry, 

Duncan  &  Goodell  Co.,  hardware, 

Du  Nord  Hotel,  Martin  Trulson,  prop., 

Durgin  Everett  W.,  jeweler  and  optician. 


PAGE. 

160  Millbury     270 

15,  17  Beacon     304 

404  Main      85  and  152 

89,  41,  43  Summer     2S0 

568  Main     366 


Dwyer  Thomas  W.,  model  quick  lunch  room,     2  Southbridge     316 
Eames  D.  H.  Co.,  men's,  youths',  boys'  and  children's  clothing, 

Main,  cor.  Front     opp.  inside  back  cover 
Earle  &  Fisher,  architects,  718  State  Mutual  Building     364 

Exchange  Hotel,  Bradley,  Nichols  &  Co.,  props.,     91,  93  Main 
Fairbanks  Harry  H.,  Sunshine  Powders,      28  Washington  Sq     244 
Fay  Brothers,  undertakers,  19  Temple     256 

Finnigan  M.  J.,  liquor  dealer,  63,  65,  67  Franklin     354 

Fish  H.  C,  machine  works,  152  Union     113  and  114 

Fish  Isador,  ladies'  tailor  and  dressmaker, 

306  Main,  Day  Bldg.,  Rooms  79,  80     356 
Fisher  &  Son,  floral  decorators,  539  Main     298 

Fitton,  photographer,  1  Chatham     328 

Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company,    70-86  Central     92,  93  and  94 
Flodin  Studio,  photography,  476  Main     60  and  96 

Folsom  J.  G.  &  Co.,  furniture,  house  furnishing  goods, 

578,  580  Main     324 
Fontaine  &  Coutu,  groceries  and  meats, 

136-137-137J  Washington     265 
Forehand  Arms  Co.,  mfrs.  shot-guns  and  revolvers,  54  and  334 

Fornell  S.,  photographer,  194  Front     254 

Frank's  Quick  Lunch,  150  Front,  6  Spring 

Frost,  rubber  stamps,  office  supplies,  blank  books,      505  Main 
Garland,  Lincoln  &  Co.,  flour,  feed,  grain,  hay,  agricultural 

implements,  592  Main 

Geiger  Geo.,  meat  market,  25  Thomas 

German  American  House,  Joseph  Sauer,  prop. ,    35-37  Mechanic 
Gibbs  The,  744  Main 

Gilrein  James  J.,  sample  room,  44  Grafton  56-h  and  181 

Gorham  C.  L.  &  Co.,  pianos,  Chester  Terrace,  87  Pleasant       46 

Gormley  P.,  florist,  Fremont  cor.  Cambridge 

Granite  State  Brick  Co., 
Great  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Tea  Company,  John  J.  Garcia, 

530  Main 
Green  Street  One-Price  Outfitting  Store,  wholesale  clothing  and 

gents'  furnishings,  hats,  caps  and  shoes,  mfrs.  and  jobbers, 

147-149  Green 
Greene  J.  H.  E  ,  plumbing  and  gas  fitting,  209  Pleasant     252 

Griffin  John  J.,  mattresses,  spring  beds,   Morris  chairs  and 

couches,  105  Shrewsbury 


366 
346 

270 


48 


306 
42 


Guy  Furniture  Co., 


274 
517  to  527  Main     246  and  248 


OUR  PATRONS. 


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320 


190 

188 
292 


Haffey  M.  F.,  mattresses,  beds,  springs,  etc., 

162,  164  Southbridge,  also  123,  125  Orient 
Hagan  Peter  J,  practical  plumber,  2  Elm 

Hardy  L.  Company,  machine  knives  for  paper,  wood,  leather, 
metal,  etc.,  9  Mill 

Harper  Joseph,  wines  and  liquors,  660-668  Southbridge 

Harrington  J.  W.,  steamfitting  and  plumbing,    30  Southbridge 
Harrington  &  Richardson  Arms  Co.,  firearms,  320  Park  ave  56  and  278 
Haas  &  Fenner,  boat  and  canoe  mfrs.  and  livery, 

Lake  Quinsigamond 
Hass  Henry  J.,  jr.,  bread,  pies,  cakes,  122,  124  Millbury 

Haven  Napoleon  H.  Co.,  sample  room,  53,  55  Grand 

Hawes  Edwin,  steamfitter  and  plumber,  185  Front 

Heath  F.  M.  &  Co.,  jobbers  in  painters'  supplies  and  lubricat- 
ing oils,  40  Southbridge 
Henry  Paul,  Forest  House,  opposite  Union  Depot 
Heslar  J.  &  Co.,  212  Summer 
Hicks  J.  E.,  groceries,  dairy  products,  371,  375  Millbury 
Hildreth  A.  G.  &  Co.,  mfrs.  overalls,  shirts,  frocks, 

34-44  Southbridge 
Hildreth  C.  H.  2d,  boarding,  feed,  livery  and  hacking  stable, 

1 0  Sever 
Hildreth  &  Putnam,  funeral  directors,  36  Foster 

Hill  Dryer  Company,  clothes  dryers,  344  Park  avenue     80  and  148 
Hinmans  College  of  Actual  Business  and  Stenography, 

11  Foster,  Board  of  Trade  Building 
Hixon  A.  A.  &  Son,  florists, 
Home  Studio,  photography. 
Horticultural  Hall, 

Hout  E.  S.  &  Co.,  commission  merchants, 
Hovey's  First-Class  Common  Victualler, 
Howland  A.  A.  Dr.,  dental  parlors, 
Howland  F.  H.,  D.  D.  S.,  dental  parlors. 

Island  Dry  Goods,  Boot  and  Shoe  Store,  Max  Levensohn,  prop., 

Lamartine  street,  directly  opp.  Grosvenor 
Israel  A.,  48  Water 

Jennison  George,  fish,  clams,  lobsters,  oysters,  104  Green 

Jewell  J.  &  Son,  general  market,  602  Southbridge 

Johnson  Mauritz,  custom  upholstery,  furniture  repairing, 

311  Main,  Room  27 
Kane  James  A.,  wood,  coal,  kindlings,  flour,  hay,  feed, 

377  Park  avenue 
Kelley  E.  <fe  Co.,  Union  spring  steel  wire  cushion,      509  Main 
Kelley  0.  A.,  auctioneer  and  dealer  in  horses,  carriages,  har- 
ness, robes,  etc.,  consignments  solicited.     Regular  auction 
sale  every  Saturday   at   10  o'clock.      Livery   stable,  81 
Foster,  Tel.  879-2 


Gates  Lane 
614  Main 

109  Park 

20  Mechanic 

11  Pleasant 

11  Pleasant 


280 
324 
252 


308 
254 
346 

368 

287 


342 

286 
338 
102 

290 
344 
344 

190 

256 


316 

288 
352 


10 


OUR  PATRONS. 


PAGE. 


Kendall  0.  S.  &  Son,  steam  heating,  plumbing,  mantels,  etc.. 

Main  st.,  opposite  postoffice 
Keyes  C.  A.,  florist,  49  Highland 

Kimball  S.  H.  &  Son,  masons'  supplies  and  clay  goods. 

Builders'  Exchange  and  81  May 
Kingston  John  P.,  architect,  518  Main,  45  Knowles  bldg 

Kinnicutt  &  DeWitt,  investment  bankers,  359  Main  opp.  Introduction 
Kittredge  John  J.,  cemetery  work  in  marble  and  granite, 

60  Webster     282 
Knowles  W.  L.  Everett, Prof., artist,  Hotel  Pleasant  120, 121  and  122 


300 


182 
260 


Lachance  Thos.,  boots  and  shoes, 

Lajoie  A.  G.,  meats,  groceries, 

Lamb  W.  B.,  pianos, 

Lange  H.  F.  A.,  floral  decorator, 

Lawrence  L.  C,  groceries  and  provisions, 

Lawton  J.  E.,  groceries  and  provisions, 

Lebbens  Chas.  E., 

Leland  S.  R.  &  Son,  pianos, 

Lester,  baker  and  confectioner. 


50 J  Front 
75,  77  Southgate     306 
516  Main     334 
294  Main     362 
34  Hanover 
147  Shrewsbury 
11  Vine 
446  Main     100,  101  and  330 
336  Millbury     274 


Loring  J.  W.  &  Son,  lathe  turning,  sawing,  cabinet  work,  etc., 

171  Union,     110  and  372 
Lovell  Arms  and  Cycle  Co.,  sporting  and  athletic  goods, 

315  Main 
Lumb  F.  H.,  ale  and  chop  house,  6  Mechanic 

Lundborg  Andrew  P.,  books,  stationery,  jewelry,  221  Main 
Lyman  Hotel,  F.  J.  King,  East  Side  of  Lake  Quinsigamond 
Lytle  W.  A.  &  Co.,  clothing,  409  Main 

Manly  &  Case,  meats  and  groceries,  193  Pleasant 

Marshall  W.  H.,  Waldo  House,  25  Waldo 

McCarthy  Michael,  sample  room,  27  Westinghouse  Square 
McGauley  T.  F.,  groceries  and  provisions,  196  Cambridge 

McGuire  John,  ales,  wines,  liquors,  cigars,  5  Myrtle 

McHugh  Francis  M.,  Waverly  pharmacy,  80  Waverly 

McLoughlin  P.,  groceries,  15  Winter 

Merritt;  half  tone  work,  834  State  Mutual  Building 

Metropolitan  Shops,  horse  shoeing,  carriage  building 

and  repairing,  31,  33,  35  Central 

Metropolitan  Stables,  livery,  hack  and  boarding, 

31,  33,  35  Central 
Metropolitan  Storage  Co ,  6  Barton  place,        10  Mason     79  and  314 
Misch  CiBsar  &  Co.,  men's,  boys'  and  children's  clothing, 

9  Pleasant 
Mitchell  A.  H.,  bakery,  120  Green 

Mitchell  J.  W.,  meats  and  groceries,  37,  39  Newbury 

Mooney  Nicholas  J.,  fire  insurance,  492  Main,  3  Clark  Block 
Morrill  Studio,  photography,  411  Main 


314 
290 
328 
296 
352 
284 


294 
312 
288 
276 
112 

270 

270 


320 

258 
250 
258 
338 


•s 


OUR  PATRONS. 


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PAGE. 


342 

258 

258 


260 


366 


360 

350 

42 


243 
292 
314 


Moulton  Edward,  jeweler  and  watch  repairing. 

Main,  cor.  Mechanic 

Mullin  G.  H.  &  Co.,  groceries  and  meats,      239,  241  Chandler 
Murphy  T.  H.,  undertaker  and  funeral  director,  96  Park 

Murray  Frank  E ,  undertaker  and  funeral  director,      47  Park 
National  Boarding,  Hack  and  Livery  Stable,  D.  E.  Wheeler  &  Co., 

30  Thomas     294 

New  Acme  Plating  Co.,  31  Hermon 

New  England  Dental  Co.,  dentists, 

245  Main,  cor.  Central,  Room  1 
New  England  Fur  Co.,  practical  furrier,  repairing  and  remod- 
eling fur  garments,  36  Pleasant 
New  England  Steel  Roofing  Co.,  copper  roof  funnels, 
New  York  Dental  Co.,  dentists,  1  Chatham 
Norcross  Brothers,  contractors  and  builders, 
Norton  Emery  Wheel  Co.,  mfrs.  Emery  wheels,  46  and  88 
O'Connor  T.  J.,  Dr.,  dentist,                                           311  Main     306 
O'Day  M.  F.,  groceries,  Bowler  Bros.  Tadcaster  ale,     96  Water 
Oliver,  photographer,                                                        393  Main 
Oliver  Joseph  H.,  ales,  wines,  liquors,  cigars,     195  Cambridge 
One  Price  Outfitting  Store,                                             147  Green      ^ 
Ordway  P.  E.,  mfr.  billiard  and  pool  tables  and  bowling  alleys, 

47  Main  81  and  350 
O'Shea  Patrick,  groceries,  ales,  wines,  liquors,  303  Millbury  276 
Ostberg  Carl  F.,  plumbing  and  gas  fitting,  1095  Main 

O'Toole  A.,  monumental  works,  headstones,  tablets,  etc., 

266  Grove 
Parker  Herbert  S.,  tailor.  One  Chatham  st.  cor.  Main 

Parker's  Restaurant,  29  Washington  Square 

Patston  J.  William,  architect.     Chase  bldg.,  44  Front,  Room  55, 

99  and  344 
Perry  Chas.  H.  Dr.,  veterinary  surgeon  and  dentist,  59  High  300 
Perry  F.  D.,  coal  and  wood,  851  Millbury,  branch  518  Main  310 
Plack  Louis,  jr.,  architect,  56  Day  Building,     86  and  290 

Plunger  Elevator  Co.,  direct  acting  Hydraulic  Elevators, 

111  and  112 

Powers  F.  E.,  coal  and  masons'  supplies,  20  Southgate     320 

Preble  Almon  W.,  fish,  lobsters,  oysters,  canned  goods, 

893  Main  350 
Prentice  Brothers,  mfrs.  machine  tools,  inside  front  cover  and  82 
Prouty  Brothers,  stoves,  ranges,  tinware,  etc.,  tin,  sheet 

iron  and  copper  work  made  to  order,  174  Main 

Putnam  C.  H.,  groceries,  flour,  etc.,  88  Washington 

Quinsigamond  Lake  Steamboat  Co.,  Irving  E.  Bigelow, 

treasurer, 
Rawson  The,  738  Main 


372 


326 
168 


264 

338 

48 


12 


OUR  PATRONS. 


OUR  PATRONS. 


PAGE. 


Reed  F.  E.  Company,  mfrs.  of  machine  tools, 

120,  122,  124  Gold 
Regan  &  Co.,  sample  room  and  cafe,  23  Mechanic     294 

Reiman  H.,  bakery,  78  Lemartine 

Rogers  C,  groceries,  shoes,  crockery,  dry  goods,     616  Millbury     268 
Rogers  Jas.  M.,  house  furnishing  goods,  282  Main 

Rourke  Daniel  F.,  underwriting  agency,  Room  5, 

"438  Main     123,  124  and  370 
Rourke  Frank  G.,  pharmacy,  604  Millbury 

Roy  Alfred,  undertaker,  coffins,  caskets,  coffin  plates  and 

trimmings,  robes,  shrouds,  wrappers,  etc.,  80  Park 

Schervee's  Photo  and  Art  Studio,  photographer  and  frame 

manufacturer,  326  Main     340 

Scotch  Woolen  Mills  Co.,  the  Great  Tailors,  364  Main     336 

Scott  Lewis  H.,  elastic  stockings,  leggins,  abdominal  belts,  etc., 

515  Main     318 
Scoville  &  Wheeler,  contractors  and  builders, 

Builders'  Exchange,     518  Main     260 
Sears  A.  H.  &  Co.,  ice,  wood  and  kindlings, 

55  Central,  order  office  8  Pearl     272 
Shaljan  John  H.,  photographer,  337  Main     356 

Sheehan  J.  J.  &  Co.,  wines,  liquors,  ales,  porters, 

37,  39  Washington  square     354 
Sherman  Envelope  Co.,  envelopes,  papeteries  and 

paper  boxes,  Nebraska,  cor.  Winona     126  and  278 

Simmons  W.  R.  &  Co.,  Worcester  Lining  Co.,  14  and  103 

Simpson  &  Martin  Company,  mfr.  sausages,     222  Shrewsbury     370 
Sinclair  &  Duquet,  heating  engineers,  36  Pearl     286 

Small  Theo.  A.,  groceries  and  produce,  22  Millbury     266 

Smith,  Adams  &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers,  commission  merchants 

and  flour  dealers,  8  and  10  Trumbull     98  and  109 

Smith  E.  T.  Company,  wholesale  grocers,  flour,  coffee 

importers,  roasters  and  jobbers,  203  Summer     73  and  332 

Smith  Green  Co.,  lime,  cement,  plasters,  26  Shrewsbury     182 

Smith  &  Crockett,  meats  and  groceries,  252,  256  Grafton     286 

South  Worcester  Bottling  Works,  660,  668  Southbridge     188 

Southgate  &  Soulhgate,  counsellors  in  Patent  cases, 

Burnside  bldg.,  339  Main  346 
Speirs  Manufacturing  Company,  high  grade  Bicycles,  52  and  338 
Squire  John  P.  &  Sons,  dressed  beef  and  pork  products,  cold 

storage,  etc.,  199  Summer     76  and  268 

Star  Lunch,  436J  Main,  Ladies'  Cafe,  438  Main  and  4  Pleasant     318 
Stevens  Geo.  A.,  flour,  grain,  hav,  feed, 

36,  38  Southbridge  128  and  274 
Stiles  W.  C,  machinist,  54  Kermon 

Stone  H.  B.  &  Co.,  paper,  twine  and  cordage,  9  Park     176 


13 


PAGE. 


Stone  W.  M.,  furniture,  72  Summer 

Stone  &  Foster  Lumber  Co.,  lumber.  Central  cor.  Union     150 

Sullivan  P.  H.,  meats,  groceries,  etc.,  114  Shrewsbury     186 

Sullivan  T.  H.,  ''Silver  Mug"  cafe,  Union  cor.  Mechanic     310 

Sunshine  Powder  Co.,  mfrs.  Sunshine  Powders,  244 

Taylor  Henry  C,  dressed  beef,  hams,  etc..  69  Shrewsbury     282 

Taylor  N.  &  Co.,  custom  tailors,  501  Main     306 

Thayer  Chas.  D.,  wholesale  and  retail  ftorist,  greenhouses, 

8  Ripley 
Thibert,  photographer,  397  Main     298 

Three  Little  Brothers  &  Co.,  merchant  tailors,  65  Main     372 

Timme  E.  A.  &  Son,  die  sinkers,  engravers,  rubber  stamps, 

554  Main  368 
Tolman  E.  K.,  locksmith  and  household  repairs,  509  Main  352 
Torpev  R.  J.,  meats  and  groceries,  188,  190  Chandler     260 

Torrey  J.  R.  Razor  Co.,  mfrs.  Razors,  128  Chandler     262 

Torrey  J.  R.  &  Co.,  mfrs.  razor  strops,  128  Chandler     262 

Troy  Granite  Co.,  42 

Tucker  Wm.  F.,  plumbing,  66  Pleasant     188 

Wachusetts  Thread  Co.,  mfrs.  thread,  116  Gold 

Waite  H.  M.,  general  hardware,  189  Front     146 

Walker  Frederick  A.,  harness  and  saddlery,  144  Main     322 

Wallis  O   H.,  coal,  wood,  kindling,  17  Hawley     322 

Watson  &  Belcher,  meat  and  provisions,  8  Pearl     316 

Watts  C.  W.,  the  New  West  Side  Grocery,  181 J  Pleasant     168 

Ware,  Pratt  Co.,  clothiers,     338  Main,  State  Mutual  Bldg.  96  and  97 
Wheatley  John  A.,  ales,  wines,  liquors,  cigars,  53  Grafton     312 

Whitaker  John  Reed  Co.,  loom  reeds,  194  Front     252 

White  Fred  Wendell,  City  Treasurer,  125 

White,  Pevey  &  Dexter  Co.,  pork  packers  and  provisions, 

13,  15  Bridge     282 
Whiting  H.  A.  &  Sons,  hay  and  grain,  193  Summer 

Wilder  Harvey  Bradish,  Register  of  Deeds,  125 

Willard  George  A.,  supporter  trusses  for  Hernia, 

4  Walnut,  Room  29     328 
Willard  W.  H.,  druggist,  133  Chandler     254 

Willard  W.  H.  <fe  Co.,  hardware,  529  Main     152 

Winslow  Samuel  Skate  Mfg.  Co.,  31  Mulberry     40 

Winslow  &  Co.,  bankers,  324  Main       38 

Wood  Peter,  Peter  Wood  Dyeing  Co  ,  bleachers  and  dyers, 

Holmes  street     340 
Wood  W.  J.,  florist,  47  Lovell     370 

Woodbury  &  Company,  engravers, 

306  Main,  86  Park  avenue     20  and  84 

Worcester  Business  Institute,  476  Main     48  and  62 


14 


OUR  PATRONS. 


I' AGE. 


Worcester  Coal  Co.,     536  Main.     Yards  397  Southbridge  and 

35  Manchester    90  and  91 
Worcester  Consolidated  Street  Railway  Co.,  15  Market     250 

Worcester  Corset  Co.,  50 

Worcester  County  Institution  for  Savings,  Savings  Bank, 

13  Foster     23  and  24 
Worcester  Cut  Glass  Works,  mfrs.  cut  glass,  17  Herinon     362 

Worcester  Electric  Light  Company,  66  Faraday,  34,  74  and  75 
Worcester  Furniture  Co.,  W.  S.  Hawkins,  president  and  trea^., 

soaps  and  house  furnishings,  48  Southbridge 

Worcester  Gas  Light  Company,  Main 

Worcester  Lining  Co.,  W.  R.  Simmons  &  Co  ,  285  Main,  14  and  103 
Worcester  MechanicsSavings  Bank,  Savings  Bank,  311  Main  21  and  22 
Worcester  National  Bank,  9  Foster     112 

Worcester  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Co.,  448  Main     114  and  115 

Worcester  Storage  Company,     Pleasant  cor.  Clinton, 

Gold  Street  Court  cor.  Bradley     78  and  296 
Worcester  Supply  Co.,  cameras,  typrewritcrs,  photographic  and 

typewriter  su{)plies,  7  Pleasant     330 

Worcester  and  Suburban  Street  Railway  Company,  36 

Young  W.  C.  Mfg.  Co.,  machinery,        "  17  Hermon     348 


WORCESTER  LINING  CO., 


WE  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF 


DRESS  LININGS, 


DRESS  TRIMMINGS, 


AND 


TAILORS'  TRIMMINGS, 


At  the  Lowest  Cash  Prices, 


285  HAIN  ST. 


(BAY  STATE  HOUSE.) 


Your  Patronage  Solicited. 


W.  R.  SIMMONS  &  CO. 


HISTORY  COTW^T^ITTee. 


THOMAS  F.  HARNEY. 
(See  page  177.) 


PAUL  NAULT, 
(See  page  187.) 


MICHAEL  F.  GARRETT. 
( See  page  19a. ) 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 

Our  sincere  thanks  are 
here  tendered  the  Enter- 
tainment Committee,  un- 
der whose  supervisioti  this 
work  was  published,  the 
successful  issue  of  which 
is  largely  due  to  their  in- 
dividual efforts,  in  the 
compilation  of  7natter  con- 
tained herein.  Should 
errors  or  omissions  be 
noted,  censure  should  not 
fall  upon  the  commit- 
tee. Their  duties  were 
laborious ;  their  only  re- 
ward, the  hope  that  the 
public  may  find  food  for 
thought  in  this  collection 
of  facts  and  figures,  and 
that  it  raay  not  prove 
less  intei'esting  than  in- 
structive. 


JAMES  J.  NOONAN. 
(See  page  193.) 


ALBERT  H.  KNIGHT. 
(See  page  180.) 


JOHN  J.  ROONEY. 
(Seepage  189.) 


15 


14 


OUR  PATRONS. 


I»A«K. 


Worcester  Coal  Co.,     r)36  Main.     Yards  IJOT  Soutlibridge  and 

35  Manchester     1)0  and  91 
Worcester  (\)nsolidated  Street  Railway  Co.,  15  Market     250 

Worcester  Corset  Co.,  ,">0 

Worcester  County  Institution  for  Savings,  Savings  Bank, 

13  Foster     23  and  24 
Worcester  Cut  Glass  Works,  nifrs.  cut  glass,  17  Ilennon     362 

Worcester  Electric  Liorl,t  Company,         00  Faraday,     34,  74  and  75 
Worcester  Furniture  Co.,  W.  S.  Hawkin.s  president  and  trea^., 
soaps  and  house  furnishings,  48  Soutlibridge 

Worcester  (las  Light  Company,  Main 

Worcester  Lining  Co.,  W.  R.  Simmons  tV:  Co  ,  2.S5  Main,      14  and  103 

Worcester  MeciianicsSavings  Bank,  Savings  Bank,  311  Main  21  and  22 
Worcester  National  Bank,  9  Foster     112 

Worcester  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Co.,  448  Main     114  and  115 

Worcester  Storage  Company,     Pleasant  cor.  Clinton, 

Gold  Street  Court  cor.  Bradley     78  and  290 
Worcester  Supply  Co.,  cameras,  typrewriters,  photographic  and 

typewriter  supplies,  7  Pleasant     330 

Worcester  and  Suburban  Street  Railway  Companv,  36 

Young  W.  C.  Mfg.  Co.,  machinery,        "  "  17  ilermon     348 


WORCESTER  LINING  CO., 


WE  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF 


DRESS  LININGS, 


DRESS  TRIMMINGS, 


AND 


TAILORS'  TRIMMINGS, 


At  the  Lowest  Cash  Prices, 


285  HAIN  ST. 


(BAY  STATE  HOUSE.) 


Your  Patronage  Solicited. 


W.  R.  SIMMONS  &  CO. 


HISTORV  COTVYTV^ITTee, 


THOMAS  F.  HARNEY. 
(  See  page  177.) 


PAUL  NAULT. 
(See  page  1R7. ) 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 

Otir  sincere  ihanlcH  are 
here  tendered  the  Enh  r- 
id'mment  Comnriitee,  len- 
der ivJiosc xfipervi>^ion  tJiis 
irork  was  jmhli-shed,  the 
successful  issvc  of  ivhich 
is  largely  due  to  their  in- 
dividual efforts,  in  the 
conipilatiou  of  matter  con- 
tained herein.  Should 
errors  or  oynissions  be 
noted,  censure  should  ntd 
fall  upon  the  commit- 
tee. Their  duties  were 
labor i oujs ;  their  only  re- 
ward, the  hope  that  thr 
public  may  find  food  for 
thougld  in  this  collection 
of  facts  and  figures,  and 
tit  at  it  may  not  prove 
less  inte^'esting  than  in- 
structive. 


JAMKS  J.  XOONAN. 
(See  page  193.) 


ALBERT  H.  KNIGHT 

(  See  page  iSo. ) 


MICHAEL  F.  GARRETT. 
(See  page  19a.) 


JOHN  J.  ROONEY. 
(See  page  189.) 


15 


IRREGULAR  PAGINATION 


WOODBURY  &  COMPANY, 


Successors    to 


KYES  &  WOODBURY, 

ARTISTS  AND  ENGRAVERS 

WOOD  CUTS 

And 

HALF=TONES 

OF  THE  BEST  QUALITY. 

Our  Views  of  Manufacturing   Plants  are 
Famous. 

We  are  Experts  in  flaking  Drawings  or  Photographs 
of  riachinery,  in  any  Position,  or  in  Operation. 

86  PARK  AVENUE,  WORCESTER,  HASS. 


ENGRAVING  OFFICE,  A.  Q.  WESSON,  Hanager, 

306  MAIN  STREET. 


20 


The  Worcester  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank. 

Few  interests  of  Worcester  have  been  so  stable  and  can  point  to 
such  uniform  prosperity  as  her  banking  and  financial  institutions. 
While  being  reasonably  conservative,  they  have  never  been  lacking 
in  that  kind  of  public  spirit  that  stands  ready  to  extend  assistance 
in  the  prosecution  of  improvements,  the  upholding  of  legitimate 
business  ventures,  and  the  establishment  and  assistance  of  manu- 
factures and  commerce.  These  institutions  have  frequently  acted 
with  great  liberality  in  the  case  of  public  and  private  need,  thus 
earning  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  community.  The  officers 
and  directors  of  these  banks  are  men  of  broad  views  and  large 
capital,  and  are  identified  with  many  of  the  city's  interests,  and  are 
always  prepared  to  contribute  of  their  time  and  means  towards  her 
advancement. 

Worcester  maintains  a  number  of  banking  institutions  that  for 
extent  of  business  transacted  take  rank  among  the  foremost  in  the 
State.  One  of  the  oldest  and  largest  is  the  Worcester  Mechanics' 
Savings  Bank,  which  has  had  a  lengthy  and  honorable  career  and 
has  ever  proved  a  tower  of  strength  to  the  financial  world.  This 
bank  has  been  in  existence  since  May  15,  1851.  Its  founders  were 
men  who  had  the  rare  foresight  to  lay  the  foundation  sufficiently 
strong  and  deep  to  bear  any  superstructure  that  time,  experience  and 
wealth  might  rear.  Under  its  present  wise  and  conservative  man- 
agement this  bank  is  doing  a  large  and  safe  business,  and  it  is 
generally  regarded  as  one  of  those  solid,  ably-conducted  institutions 
that  reflect  credit  alike  upon  its  officers  and  the  community  where 
its  influence  is  felt.  Assets  January,  1899,  $6,701,029.40.  Its 
officers  and  trustees  for  1899  are  as  follows  : 

President,  J.  p]dwin  Smith.  Vice-Presidents,  A.  B.  R.  Sprague, 
John  H.  Goes,  George  E.  Merrill,  Thomas  B.  Eaton.  Trustees, 
J.  Edwin  Smith,  A.  B.  R.  Sprague,  John  H.  Goes,  George  E.  Merrill, 
Thomas  B.  Eaton,  Levis  G.  White,  Thomas  G.  Kent,  Gharles  A. 
Hill,  Francis  H.  Dewey,  Francis  W.  Blacker,  Eli  J.  Whittemore, 
Gharles  F.  Hanson,  Henry  S.  Pratt,  Arthur  P.  Rugg,  Gharles  D. 
Lamson.  Treasurer,  Henry  Woodward.  Glerk,  Francis  H.  Dewey. 
Finance  Gommittee,  J.  Edwin  Smith,  Thomas  B.  Eaton,  John  H. 
Goes,  Eli  J.  Whittemore,  A.  B.  R.  Sprague.  Auditors,  George  E. 
Merrill,  Thomas  G.  Kent.  Frank  W.  Gutting,  Teller.  John  E. 
Morse,  Book-keeper.     Arthur  H.  Ballord,  Glerk. 

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WORCESTER  MECHANICS  SAVINGS  BANK, 

311  MAIN  ST..  WORCESTER.  MASS. 

INCORPORKTBD   TW^KV  IS.   1S51. 

ASSETS.  JANUARY,  1899,  .  .  $6,701,029.40. 


A.  B.  R.  SPKAGrE, 
JOHN  H.  COES, 

J.  EDWIN  SMITH, 
A.  B.  R.  SPRAGUE, 
JOHN  H.  COES, 
GEO.  E.  MERRILL, 
THOMAS  B.  EATON, 
LEVIS  G.  WHITE, 
THOMAS  G.  KENT, 

Treasurer, 
HENRY  WOODWARD. 

J.  EDWIN  SMITH, 
THOMAS  B.  EATON, 


GEORGE  E.  MERRILL, 


OFFICERS  FOR  1899: 

President, 

J.  SO^n^IN  S7WTITH. 

Vice-Presidents, 


GEO.  E.  MERRILL, 
THOMAS  B.  EATON. 


Trustees: 


CHARLES  D.  LAMSON. 


Finance  Committee, 

A.  B.  R.  SPRAGUE. 
Auditors, 


CHAS.  A.  HILL, 
FRANCIS  H.  DEWEY, 
FRANCIS  W.  BLACKER. 
ELI  J.  WHITTEMORE, 
CHAS.  F.  HANSON, 
HENRY  S.  PRATT. 
ARTHUR  P.  RUGG, 

Clerk, 
FRAxXCIS  H.  DEWEY. 

JOHN  H.  COES, 

ELI  J.  WHITTEMORE, 


THOMAS  G.  KENT. 


FRANK  W.  CUTTING,  Teller.  JOHN  E.  MORSE,  Book-keeper 

ARTHUR  H.  BALLORD,  Clerk. 


Deposits  received  Daily,  and  placed  upon  interest  on  the  Fifteenth  day  of  Jan- 
uary, April,  July  and  October. 

Dividends  payable  on  or  after  the  First  day  of  February  and  August. 

Dividends  not  withdrawn  are  placed  upon  interest  on  the  Fifteenth  day  of  the 
next  quarter  day  after  they  are  declared. 

All  taxes  on  deposits  are  paid  by  this  Bank. 

Bank  Open,  from  9  A.  M.  to  4  P.  M.  Saturdays,  Close  at  I  P.  M. 

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Worcester  County  Institution  for  Savings. 

The  savings  banks  of  Worcester  are  among  the  city's  proudest 
indications  of  pre-eminence  and  wealth.  Nor  does  any  city  of.  its 
size  offer  such  splendid  facilities  for  the  safekeeping  of  evidences  of 
value  as  those  which  are  presented  by  the  savings  institutions  of 
Worcester.  The  Worcester  County  Institution  for  Savings  was 
incorporated  Feb.  8,  1828,  and  bears  favorable  comparison  with  any 
similar  institution  in  the  State.  There  is  no  bank  in  the  country 
more  safely  housed,  while  the  exceptional  ability  of  the  executive  is 
generally  recognized.  The  most  eminent  and  wealthy  citizens  were 
chosen  as  its  first  trustees  and  the  bank  began  business  under  the 
most  favorable  auspices,  which  has  been  followed  by  a  strict 
observance  of  the  soundest  principles  governing  banking  and  finance. 
Their  new  building  is  an  imposing  edifice.  There  is  an  abundance 
of  light  and  air  and  the  bank  may  be  said  to  enjoy  greater  safe- 
guards than  any  other  in  the  city.  A  very  large  business  is  done 
here  and  the  bank's  enviable  record  and  magnificent  showing  reflects 
the  highest  credit  upon  the  board  of  trustees.  This  bank  has  deposits 
amounting  to  $15,004,028,  the  number  of  depositors  being  31,800. 
The  officers  and  trustees  of  the  bank  are  as  follows  : 

President,  Stephen  Salisbury.  Vice-Presidents,  George  S.  Howe, 
John  D.  Washburn,  Edward  L.  Davis.  Trustees,  George  S.  Howe, 
John  D.  Washburn,  Edward  L.  Davis,  Stephen  Salisbury,  George 

E.  Francis,  Thomas  H.  Gage,  A.  George  Bullock,  Josiah  H.  Clarke, 
Waldo  Lincoln,  Frank  P.  Goulding,  Lincoln  N.  Kinnicutt,  Jonas  G. 
Clark,  Charles  F.  Aldrich,  Samuel  S.  Green,  Elisha  D.  Buffington, 
Samuel  C.  Willis,  Leonard  Wheeler,  Edward  D.  Thayer,  Jr.,  George 

F.  Blake,  Jr.,  Edward  F.  Tolman,  Lyman  A.  Ely,  Samuel  B. 
Woodward,  Frederick  S.  Pratt,  William  S.  Jourdan,  EUery  B.  Crane, 
James  Logan,  H.  Winfield  Wyman,  Thomas  C.  Mendenhall,  Oliver 
H.  Everett.  Charles  F.  Aldrich,  Clerk  of  Corporation.  Treasurer, 
Charles  A.  Chase.  Board  of  Investment,  Stephen  Salisbury,  George 
E.  Francis,  Edward  D.  Thayer,  Jr.,  Lyman  A.  Ely,  Samuel  B. 
Woodward.  Auditors,  Edward  F.  Tolman,  Frederick  S.  Pratt, 
George  F.  Blake,  Jr.  Luther  M.  Lovell,  Teller.  Frank  L.  Mes- 
smger,  General  Accountant.  Linus  Sibley,  Ralph  E.  Stewart, 
Accountants.  Ernest  Russell,  Frank  E.  Williamson,  Albert  h! 
Stedman,  Kendall  C.  Crossfield,  George  R.  Matthews,  Clerks. 

The  officers  and  board  of  trustees  are  thoroughly  representative 
.  of  the  wealth  and  intelligence  of  Worcester,  and  the  bank  is  one  of 
the  city's  best  financial  bulwarks,  ever  a  source  of  pride  and  profit 
to  her  citizens. 

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Worcester  County  Institution  for  Savings,^ 

NO.   13    FOSTER    STREET. 

Incorporated  Feb.  8,  1828. 

Open  Daily  for  the  receipt  of  Deposits,  which  are  put  on  Interest  on  the  First  Day 

of  January,  April,  July  and  October. 

DIVIDENDS  PAYABLE  JANUARY  AND  JULY  15. 


$15,004,028 
31.800 


AMOUNT  OF  DEPOSITS, 
NUMBER  OF  DEPOSITORS, 

President, 

STEPHEN  SALISBURY. 
Vice-Presidents, 

GEORGE  S.  HOWE,  JOHN  D.  WASHBURN, 

EDWARD  L.  DAVIS. 

Trustees: 


GEORGE  S.  HOWE, 
JOHN  D.  WASHBURN, 
EDWARD  L.  DAVIS, 
STEPHEN  SALISBURY, 
GEORGE  E.  FRANCIS, 
THOMAS  H.  GAGE, 
A.  GEORGE  BULLOCK, 
JOSIAH  H.  CLARKE, 
WALDO  LINCOLN, 
FRANK  P.  GOULDING, 
LINCOLN  N.  KINNICUTT. 
JONAS  G.  CLARK, 
CHARLES  F.  ALDRICH, 
SAMUEL  S.  GREEN, 
ELISHA  D.  BUFFINGTON, 


SAMUEL  C.  WILLIS, 
LEONARD  WHEELER, 
EDWARD  D.  THAYER,  Jr., 
GEORGE  F.  BLAKE,  Jr., 
EDWARD  F.  TOLMAN, 
LYMAN  A.  ELY, 
SAMUEL  B.  WOODWARD, 
FREDERICK  S.  PRATT, 
WILLIAM  S.  JOURDAN, 
ELLERY  B.  CRANE, 
JAMES  LOGAN, 
H.  WINFIELD  WYMAN, 
THOMAS  C.  MENDENHALL, 
OLIVER  H.  EVERETT. 


CHARLES  F.  ALDRICH,  Clerk  of  Corporation. 

Treasurer. 

chkrl.es  K.  OHKSB. 

Board  of  investment, 

STEPHEN  SALISBURY,    GEORGE  E.  FRANCIS,    EDWARD  D.  THAYER,  Jr., 
LYMAN  A.  ELY,  SAMUEL  B.  WOODWARD. 

Auditors, 
EDWARD  F.  TOLMAN,       FREDERICK  S.  PRATT,       GEORGE  F.  BLAKE,  Jr. 

LUTHER  M.  LOVELL,  Teller.  FRANK  L.  MESSINQER,  Qen'l  Accountant. 

LINUS  SIBLEY,  RALPH  E.  STEWART,  Accountants. 

ERNEST  RUS5ELL.  PRANK  E.  WILLIAMSON.  ALBERT  H.  5TEDMAN, 

KENDALL  C.  CROSSFIELD.  QEORQE  R.  MATTHEWS,  Clerks. 

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PROGRESSIVE!  PRACTICAL!  LEADING!  BEST! 

flNSTRLCTION  GIVEN  IN  THE  FOLLOWING  BRANCHES: 

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Oar  Coorse  of  Study  is  Complete.  Onr  Methods  Are  Up  to  Date. 

Our  Faculty  Is  the  Best  to  be  Found  In  Any  Similar  Institution. 


The  Bookkeeping  Department  is  in  charge  of  an  Expert  Accountant  and  the 

pupils  liave  the  benefit  of  liis  practical  experience  in  business. 

Our  Shorthand  Instructor  is  an  experienced  teacher  and  gets  good  results. 

"Typewriting  by  Touch"  is  taught  here. 

Our  Rooms  are  the  Best  Lighted  and  best  equipped  in  New  England. 

We  Do  Not  Promise  Positions,  vet  we  have  No  Trouble  in  Placing  Compe- 
tent Pupils  in  good  paying  positions. 

Business  Men  Like  Our  Methods  and  come  to  us  for  graduates. 

New  Pupils  received  daily. 


Come  in  and  Talk  it  Over.  Visitors  Welcome.         Correspoodence  lovited. 

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Worcester- Its  Early  History. 


^^ONTRAST  any  of  the  young  but  vigorous  cities  of  the  Great 
^^     Republic  with  cities  of  the  same  class  in  the  Old  World,  and 
what  do  we  find?     While  it  has  taken  centuries  for  the  latter  to 
reach  maturity,  the  former,  in  less  than  a  generation,  from  prairie 
villages  or  forest  trading  posts,  have  sprung  into  the  front  rank  of 
great  commercial  cities,  whose  colossal  fortunes  have  been  made  and 
vast  business  emporiums  established.     All  this,  too,  has  been  accom- 
plished by  men  sprung  from  the  mechanical  or  trading  classes,  with- 
out  fortune,  other  than  their  brains  and  hands,  to  start  them  in  the 
race  of  life.     The  history  of  our  successful  professional  and  business 
men  is  a  history  that  the  Republic  may  well  be  proud  of     These 
men  have  left  a  record  more  glorious  than  the  proud  oligarchy  of 
Venice,  or  the  conquering  legions  of  Greece  or  Rome 

In  all  that  appertains  to  the  material  prosperity  of  a  nation  the 
United  States  are  without  an  equal  in  the  history  of  the  world    Not 
by  steps  alone  has  the  country  progressed  and  developed,  but  by 
inightybounds,  with  an  irresistible  sweep  that  annihilates  obstacles 
and  difficulties,  deemed  insurmountable,  like   Napoleon's   legions 
conquering  Europe.     Nor  is  this  phenomenal  prosperity  confined  to 
a  section  or  territory;  it  is  diffused  broadcast  througout  the  land 
Untravelled  Americans,  to  the  manor  born,  can  hardly  realize  the 
deep  significance  of  these  pregnant  facts.     The  horizon  of  their  obser- 
vation has  been  circumscribed  to  the  familiar  study  of  the  matchless 
destiny  and  achievements  of  their  native  land.     But  let  them  cross 
he  ocean,  and  contrast  the  wretched  state  of  society  there  with  that 
of  their  own  happy  country,  and  the  experience  thereby  gained  will 
-deed  be  a  liberal  education.      Or,  without  going  so  fa!,  let  them 


C07W^PL.I7W^ENTS  OP 


WORCESTER  ELECTRIC 


LIGHT  COMPANY, 


OFFICE  AND  STATION, 


No.  66  FARADAY    STREET. 


******* 


T.  M.  ROGERS,  President, 


H.  H.  FAIRBANKS,  Treasurer 


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WORCESTER-ITS  EARLY  HISTORY.  35 

cross  the  border  into  Canada,  and  if  they  do  not  return  home  with 
a  greater  reverence  for  their  own  Stars  and  Stripes,  then  they  are  no 
true  Americans. 

The  great  prosperity  noted  is  not  confined  to  any  city  or  group  of 
cities,  any  more  than  to  any  Territory  or  State.  Some  of  our  cities, 
it  is  true,  are  richer  and  more  populous,  according  to  opportunities 
and  circumstances,  than  others ;  but  all  are  relatively  flourishing 
and  enjoying  their  share  of  the  world's  success. 

The  historic  annals  of  Massachusetts  really  begin  with  the  arrival 
of  the  Mayflower  in  Cape  Cod  Bay,  November  1 1,  1C20.     Plantations 
and  settlements  were  soon  begun  in  different  parts  of  the  State  but 
bad  management  and  Indian  difficulties  led  to  their  eariy  abandon- 
ment, and  it  was  not  until  1630  that  the  General  Court  was  held  and 
then  was  made  the  first  attempt  in  this  country  to  establish  repre- 
sentative government.     The  emigration  from  England  to  the  colony 
increased  rapidly  in  1632-3,  and  the  General  Court,  the  germ  of  the 
present  House  of  Representatives,  became  an  established  institution 
in  1634.    The  Pequod  War  broke  out  in  1636,  resulting  in  thedefeat 
of  the  Red  Men,  aftera  year's  struggle,  during  which  many  colonists 
lost  their  lives,  others  their  dwellings  and  live  stock,  and  all  suffered 
severely      Forty  years  of  peace  succeeded,  when,  in  1675,  thelndians 
who  had  gradually  obtained  and  perfected  themselves  in  the  use  of 
firearms,  renewed  the  struggle  under  the  leadership  of  Philip  and  a 
bloody  war  of  a  year's  duration  ensued. 

Worcester  is  beautifully  located  in  the  center  of  New  England 
forty,  our  miles  from  Boston,  and  has  been  known  from  time  fmme- 
moria  as  "the  heart  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts." 
Everything  in  life  is  said  to  be  relative.  And,  as  effects  cease,  not 
alwajs  with  the  causes  in  which  they  have  their  origin,  so  also  may 
the  events  of  the  dead  past  bear  closely  upon  the  affairs  of  the 
present  Thus,  while  the, scope  of  this  work  comprehends  prima! 
nly,  live  matters  of  interest  pertaining  to  Worcester  of  to-day  its 

rucrZ'Tr'i  "'''"''  '^"^*'  ''''  prosperity,  there  t  so 
much  that  IS  distinctly  rxotable  in  the  history  of  the  settlement 


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WORCESTER-ITS  EARLY  HISTORY.  37 

growth  and  progress  of  the  town  and  city  germane  to  the  subject- 
matter  hereinafter  presented  that  a  brief  review  thereof  from  the 
earliest  period  seems  eminently  fitting  by  way  of  a  prologue  to  the 
chapters  that  follow.  For,  though  vast  and  of  surpassing  import- 
ance for  manufacturing,  mercantile  and  financial  interests,  she  stands 
prominently  forward  in  her  relations  with  the  destinies  of  the  nation 
in  "the  times  that  tried  men's  souls." 

The  history  of  Worcester  runs  back  to  1674,  the  earliest  recorded 
settlement  being  at  that  time.  During  the  reign  of  peace  and  pros- 
penty  lasting  from  1713  to  1744  it  was  in  1722  incorporated  as  a 
town.  From  this  time  on  there  were  steady  accessions  to  the  village 
and  in  due  time  considerable  progress  had  been  made.  Highways 
were  constructed,  shops  and  stores  were  started,  and  modern  houses 
began  to  be  built;  and  Worcester  became  a  city  in  the  year  1845 

Each  day  Worcester's  growth  has  added  materially  to  its  beauty 
wealth  and  permanance.  Time  and  space  have  been  practically 
annihilated  and  what  would  be  considered  in  the  old  world  a  short 
lapse  of  period  has  sufficed  to  create  a  great  and  grand  city,  possess- 
ing factories  and  works  of  various  kinds,  fully  equal  to  any  in  the 
worici. 


Worcester  of  To-day. 


\A/ORCESTER  is  now  the  second  city  in  population  and 
»     Y       importance  in  the  State,  the  third  in   New   England 

and  the  third  inland  city  in  the  United  States.  It  prSuce^ 
gre^iter  variety  of  manufactured  products  than   any  other  city 

men         Z"'7'   "'    "°"    '"    '''''   --"f«<=t'^ring  establish- 
nients,    with    $15,000,000    capital    invested,   employing,   the   last 
census  year,  20,185  people,  who  receive  annually  about  $9  600  000 
in   wages,   producing  about   $38,500,000   worth   of   finished   pro 
ducts.     The  inception   of  some  of  the  most  essential  comforts  of 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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BONOS.  STOCKS.  FOREIGN  EXCHAN8E 

WINSLOW  ^  CO., 
BANKERS, 

324  MAIN  STREET,     WORCESTER,  MASS. 
LEHERS  OF  CREDIT.  COMMERCIAL  PAPER. 


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life  can  be  traced  back  to  Worcester  invention,  while  an  examination 
of  the  industries  of  the  city  shows  the  wonders  of  Yankee  pluck  and 
enterprise.     The  manufacturers  of  Worcester  have  long  been  con- 
ceded as  of  surpassing  importance.  They  are  not  only  vast  but  varied. 
Numerous  noteworthy  industrial  enterprises  have  had  their  incep- 
tions here  within  a  recent  period,  and  all  the  signs  are  that  Worces- 
ter has  a  great  future  as  a  manufacturing  centre.     The  hum  of  ma- 
chinery and  the  evidences  of  industry  and  activity  are  rapidly  in- 
creasing on  every  hand,  and  there  has  been  remarkable  progress  in 
all  branches  of  manufacture  of  late.     Worcester  offers  to  manufac- 
turers, capitalists  and  investors  such  facilities  of  accommodation — 
transit,  light,  pure  air  and  power,  together  with  other  advantages- 
difficult  to  obtain  elsewhere,  and   men   of  means  and  foresight  are 
eagerly  grasping  the  opportunities  here  presented.     There  is  plenty 
of  room  in  and  about  Worcester  for  the  establishment  of  manufac- 
tories, and  to  the  capitalistdesirous  of  investing  money,  the  mechanic 
of  employing  his  skill,  and  the  merchant  of  executive  ability,  a  closer 
and  personal  examination   into  the  subjects  briefly  treated  of  here 
will  undoubtedly  prove  advantageous,  while  as  a  place  of  residence 
Worcester  and  its  environs  stand  unexcelled.     If  beauty  of  situation, 
the  benefits  of  rare  business  opportunity,  all  that  is  wise  in  conserv- 
atism united  with  all  that  is  noble  in  the  grand  progressive  move- 
ment of  the  present  age;  if  surroundings  elevating  in  influence,  insti- 
tutions helpful   in  an   honorable  struggle  with  the  vicissitudes  of 
practical  life;  if  health,  wealth  and  happiness  are  attractions  in  a 
place  of  residence,  then  Worcester  must  win  like  a  mother  and  com- 
mand like  a  queen. 

Worcester  is  a  noted  railway  center.  Five  different  railroads 
center  here,  having  unsurpassed  passenger  service,  with  128  passen- 
ger trains  in  each  direction  daily;  while  the  city  is  connected  by 
electric  roads  with  seventeen  suburban  towns  having  a  population  of 
some  75,000.  It  has  a  very  complete  system  of  water  works,  with  a 
supply  that  is  absolutely  pure  and  free  from  contamination.  There 
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parts  of  the  city;    the  Lake  Quinsigamond,  seven  miles  long,  with 
attractive  shores,  hotels  and  summer  cottages.     It  is  a  most  healthy 
city,  having  a  very  low  death  rate.     Growing  in  a  solid  and  substan- 
tial way,  ''without  haste,  without  rest,"   Worcester  furnishes  truer 
conditions  of  real  life,  more  hopeful  and  rounded  standards  of  life 
for  ''all  classes  and  conditions  of  men"  than  almost  any  other  com- 
munity.    The  resident  of  Worcester,  be  he  workman  with  hands  or 
brain,  may  have  his  own  home,  made  attainable  by  the  large  indus- 
tries which  are  glad  to  exchange  just  coin  for  fair  service,  and,  by 
low  rents,  with  room  for  the  garden  and  leave  to  own  his  own  spot 
of  ground ;  while  the  cheapness  of  the  overflowing  home  market, 
spilling  itself  in  surplus  into  all  the  world,  relieves  him  from  an 
existence  of  mere  animal  slavery  to  the  common  needs  of  life.  Thus 
the  manufacturer  and  capitalist  seeking  a  home  in  Worcester  finds 
his  interests  and  the  safety  and  well-being  of  society  resting  upon  a 
basis  of  well-conditioned  labor.     The  absolute  rectitude,  which  is  the 
truest  charity,  and  which,  if  practiced,  would  render  half  the  so-called 
charities  unnecessary,  has  noticeably  been  shown  by  Worcester  cor- 
porations toward  their  large  armies  of  employes,  and  mutual  esteem 
and  conditions  of  true  individual  development  and  manliness  are  the 
outcome  of  such  relations  as  are  maintained  between  the  so-called 
different  classes  in  this  city. 

The  superior  system  of  public  schools  which  Worcester  has  long 
fostered  with  especial  solicitude,  the  inestimable  benefits  of  the 
religious  privileges  afforded  by  the  many  churches,  where  each  may 
find  his  most  congenial  church-home;  the  advantages  of  free  libra- 
ries, art  galleries,  and  the  most  charming  social  circles  in  the  United 
States,  all  these  advantages  in  a  setting  of  healthful  climate  and 
sanitary  local  influences,  together  with  the  oft-quoted  business  oppor- 
tunities of  the  city,  make,  as  it  were,  a  medley  of  substantial  attrac- 
tions  as  a  residence  suited  to  the  varied  requirements  of  the  multi- 
tudinous types  of  men  and  women  in  whose  lives  and  business 
schemes  and  aspirations  there  is  ever  an  undertone  of  "  Home, 
Sweet  Home." 


NORCROSS    BROTHERS, 


(O.  W.   NORCROSS.) 


CONTRACTORS    AND    BUILDERS. 


160  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 
Industrial  Buildingr,  Providence. 


Tremont  Buildingr,  Boston. 
269  West  River  St..  Cleveland. 


GRANITE  STATE  BRICK  CO., 


Manufacturers  of 


BUILDING  BRICK  BY  THE  PALLET  METHOD. 

BOTH  SAND  AND  WATER  STRUCK  BRICK. 


Main  Office.  Worcester.  Mass. 


Yards,  Epping:,  N.  H..  on  Boston  &  Maine  R.  R. 


in^ORCESTER.  7WTKSS. 


BROWNVILLE  MAINE  SLATE  CO., 

MANLTF.'\CTURKRS  OF 

UNFADING  BLACK  ROOFING  SLATE, 

STRONGEST.  TOUGHEST.  BRIGHTEST. 

MOST  DURABLE  SLATE  IN  THE  WORLD. 
Office,  14  East  Worcester  St.    Quarries  at  Brownville,  Maine. 

WORCESTER,  MASS. 


BLANDFORD  BRICK  &  TILE  CO., 


MANUKACTURKRS  OF 


Plain   and   Ornamental    Building    Brick,    Fire  Tile, 
Cupola  Blocks  and  Fire-Clay  Mortar. 

FINE  WHITE  BRICK  A  SPECIALTY. 

WORCESTER,  MASS. 


Office.  10  East  Worcester  St 
Worlcs.  at  Russell.  Mass. 


TROY  CRKNITE  CO,, 

MONUMENTS,   MAUSOLEUMS  AND  MEMORIALS 


IN  GRT^NI 
White,  Red  and  Pink  Granites. 

F=OR    PRICES  KND 


OR  7WTKRBL-E, 

White  and  Colored  Marbles. 

STITW^KTES,   ADDRESS. 

WORCESTER.  MASS. 
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Business  at  tl.e  present  day,  altl.ough  built  upon  the  old  standard 
rules  of  barter  and  trade,  has  become  more  flexible,  and  the  present 
generation  are  more  closely  allied  with  each  other  in  the  same  or 
kindred  departments  of  activity.     Representative  men  in  leading 
avenues  of  trade  now  see  the   necessity  of  a  closer  relationship  a 
more  defined  dissemination  of  trade  news  and  a  more  frequent  com- 
mingling of  all  whose  interests  are  to  be  benefitted  by  such  a  condi- 
tion.    The  marked  changes  in  the  conduct  of  many  departments  of 
rade  during  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  have  been  so  emphatic 
that  It  IS  a  subject  of  favorable  comment  and  a   matter  that  has 
resulted  in  gre„t  profit  to  all  interested.     The  successful  organization 
of  boards  of  trades,  associations  and  exchanges  has  been  most  bene- 
hcal,  and  so  universally  recognized  are  these  institutions,  that  they 
are  found  ii,  all  our  principal  American  cities  in  direction  of  organ- 
ized effort  in  behalf  of  the  improvement  of  the  business  resources 
and  facilities  of  the  city.     Worcester  is  in  no  wi.se  behind  the  other 
leading  commercial  centers  of  the  country. 

The  Worcester  Board  of  Trade  was  organized  in  1891,  and  its 
history  shows  a  career  of  great  usefulness.     Its  work  on  behalf  of 
the  industrial  and  commercial  growth  of  the  city  has  been  most 
effective  and  praiseworthy.     There  are  now  over  400  members,  and 
the  number  is  steadily  increasing  each  year.     It  has  been  the  con- 
stant  aim  of  the  organization  to  place  the  Board  upon  a  solid  finan- 
cial basis,  and  this  work  has  been  most  successfully  accomplished. 
Ihe  Board,  through  its  officers  and  committees,  are  constantly  on 
the  lookout  for  matters  of  public  improvement,  and  uphold  the  Citv 
Government  in  securing  all  such  improvements.     Thev  have  als'o 
been  instrumental  in  bringing  to  the  city  many  new  and  valuable 
business   enterprises.     They    are   thereby    contributing  in    a    verv 
material  way  to  the  promotion  of  the  interests  of  trade  in  Worceste^ 
It  seems  almost  incredible  that  Worcester  should  possess  better 
advantages  both  in  regard  to  location  and  transportation  facilities 
than  any  similar  city  in   this  section   nf  fK  .  'aciiiiies, 

shonlrl  L  fK    1  \        ,  ^  country,  and   that  it 

should  be  the  home  of  as  large  a  number  of  manufacturing  enter- 


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Manufacturer  of  CAHILL'S  IMPROVED  WATER  CLOSET  SYPHON.  The  above  cut  shows 
practically  an  Indestructible  syphon,  having  no  seat,  no  packing  or  washers  of  any  description. 
It  has  no  opening  beneath  the  water  level  in  the  tank.  It  is  manufactured  of  brass  casting  and 
tubing.  Will  not  get  out  of  order.  Lcakace  Is  ImptMslble.  Can  be  safely  guaranteed  for  fifty 
years.    The  uupcctton  of  all  builders  and  coutractors  is  solicited. 

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prises,  in  proportion  to  population,  as  any  city  in  the  United  States; 
yet  this  is  so,  and  when  one  considers  the  interests  represented  here 
he  certainly  has  reason  to  feel  proud  of  the  place  as  one  of  the  great 
industrial,  progressive  cities  of  New  England. 

The  number  of  factories  and  manufacturing  establishments  of  all 
kinds,  both  large  and  small,  engaged  in  business  in  Worcester, 
exceeds  400,  while,  although  wire,  machinery,  textiles,  wire  goods, 
bolts,  nuts  and  rivets,  skates,  razors,  woodwork  of  every  description, 
wrenches,  clippers,  looms,  shoes,  boilers  and  engines,  foundry  work, 
pianos,  organs,  machine  knives  and  dies,  are  the  principal  products, 
there  are  by  actual  count  over  200  different  lines  of  manufactures 
represented  in  the  city,  so  that  in  future  years  the  place  will  not  be 
dependent  on  any  one  line  of  industry.  Every  year  small  plants 
are  established  for  the  manufacture  of  some  special  article.  Many 
of  these  are  destined  to  grow  and  prosper,  until  they  shall  become 
important  factors  in  the  city's  progress.  The  reason  for  this  health- 
ful condition  is  found  in  the  fact  that  freight  can  be  shipped  to  all 
points  of  the  United  States  at  rates  as  low  as  from  any  other  city, 
while  abundant  factory  sites  are  available  on  the  lines  of  the  rail- 
roads, thus  providing  unsurpassed  transportation  facilities.  Another 
important  factor  that  is  not  generally  known  is  that  large  concerns 
are  now  looking  towards  Worcester  county  as  a  possible  location  for 
their  business.  Several  concerns  have  already  taken  large  portions 
of  land,  which  they  are  holding  for  enlargement  of  their  present 
plants  or  for  speculation,  knowing  it  is  only  a  question  of  a  few 
years  when  they  will  be  in  demand. 

The  growth  of  Worcester  in  institutions  of  capital  and  credit 
follows  the  law  which  has  characterized  all  its  developments ;  it  has 
been  indigenous  to  its  own  soil  and  entirely  independent  of  aid  from 
other  communities.  It  has  leaned  upon  no  other  center  of  business, 
but  on  the  contrary  has  been  itself  metropolitan  to  a  surrounding 
circle  of  communities.  It  now  has  seven  national  banks  and  one 
trust  company,  having  a  combined  capital  of  $2,450,000;  surplus 
fund,  $1,000,000;  deposits,  $10,500,000;  five   savings   banks   with 


C.  L.  GORHAM  &  CO., 

DEALERS  IN 

HIGH    GRT^DE    PIKNOS. 

PIANOS  SOLD  ON  EASY  PAYMENTS. 

ALSO  PIANOS  FOR  RENT. 

CHESTER  TERRACE.  .  .  87  Pleasant  Street. 


-TEL-EPHONE.   949-4. 


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Office  and  Salesroom,  28  Pearl  Street, 


TELEPHONE  790. 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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deposits  amounting  to  $33,500,000  and  three  co-operative  banks. 
From  colonial  times  to  the  present  day  the  banking  institutions  of 
the  city  have  contributed  largely  to  all  that  promotes  the  welfare  of 
mankind,  developing  and  maintaining  the  industrial  and  commer- 
cial interests  of  the  city  and  State.  All  the  banks  are  in  a  substan- 
tial and  flourishing  condition  and  the  amount  of  their  deposits  is  a 
sure  index  to  the  general  prosperity  of  the  people.  The  management 
of  these  banks  has  always  been  conservative  and  prudent,  while  they 
have  likewise  been  prompt  to  furnish  the  means  for  the  prosecution 
of  private  and  public  improvements,  the  maintenance  of  commend- 
able business  ventures  and  the  establishment  of  industrial  and  com- 
mercial enterprises. 

It  is  now  a  universally  accepted  fact  that  pure  water  is  as  essential 
to  health  as  pure  air,  and  also  that  the  high  death  rate  of  the  aver- 
age city,  compared  with  that  of  the  average  country  district,  is  due 
more  to  the  contamination  of  the  water  supply  than  it  is  to  the  mass- 
ing of  the  population,  indoor  labor  and  lack  of  active  exercise,  that 
were  once  supposed  to  be  the  main  reasons  for  the  difference.  No 
expense  has  been  spared  by  the  Worcester  Water  Commissioners  in 
investigations  and  experiment  on  improvements,  so  that  to-day  the 
pumping,  storing  and  distributing  plant  is  fully  equal  to  the  demand 
made  upon  it  and  will  be  for  some  time  to  come.  The  quality  of  the 
water  supply  is  unsurpassed. 

The  oldest  newspaper  in  Worcester  is  the  Worcester  Spy,  which 
was  established  in  Boston  in  1770  as  the  Massachusetts  Spy,  and 
removed  to  Worcester  in  1775.  It  is  the  only  one  of  the  seven 
papers  published  in  Worcester  fifty  years  ago  that  is  in  existence 
to-day.  The  first  daily  paper  was  The  Transcript,  which  appeared 
on  June  23,  1845,  and  The  Spy  (daily)  appeared  next,  on  July  24 
of  the  same  year.  A  few  months  later  they  were  consolidated  under 
the  name  of  The  Spy.  The  Daily  Morning  Transcript,  first  issued 
April  1,  1851,  is  continued  in  the  present  Evening  Gazette,  which 
took  this  last  name  January  1,  1866.  The  Daily  Bay  State  was  a 
Democratic  organ  of  brief  existence.     The  Worcester  Dailv  Press 


THE  GIBBS, 

74.4.  MAIN. 

M.  Q.  SPRING,  Owner. 


THB    RKAa/:SON, 

738  MAIN. 

J.  F.  BICKNELL.  Owner. 


GOOD  JUDGMENT    . 

DICTRTES  THAT  CARE  SHOULD  BE  EX- 
ERCISED IN  SELECTING  A  SCHOOL  IF 
YOU  ARE  REALLY  IN  EARNEST  ABOUT 
YOUR  EDUCATION  YOU  WILL  INVESTI- 
GATE INTO  THE  MERITS  OF  THE 

WORCESTER  BUSINESS  INSTITUTE. 

OAK  ROLL-TOP  DESKS. 

NEW  STANDARD  TYPEWRITERS. 

An  able  faculty,  together  with  the  lightest  and  best  ventilated  rooms 
are  a  few  of  our  many    .    .    . 

STRONG  POINTS. 


.^r^Ji!.^.^°^^'^   INVESTIGATION   AND  COMPARISON    WITH    OTHER 
SCHOOLS. 


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49 

another  Democratic  paper,  appeared,  but  was  continued  only  five 
yea..  The  New  England  Home  Journal,  a  weekly,  was  pubLhed 
two  or  three  years  and  finally  sold  to  The  Times,  a  Democratic 
paper,  which  was  published  several  years.  Another  weekly  The 
Illustrated  Light,   had  a  similar  career.     Several   French   papers 

sil Ts  rir  "  'T''"''  '^^^  '""  P"'^'^^'^'^^  -  ^--ter' 
m  1893  by  Mr.  Alexander  Belisle,  and  in  1896  the  present  company 

bu  Iding  and  real  estate  matters.  The  Telegram  was  established  as 
a  Sunday  paper  on  November  30,  1884,  by  Austin  P.  Christy.  The 
first  daily  edition  appeared  May  19,  1886.  The  Evening  Post  a 
one-cent  Democratic  paper,  first  appeared  September  23,  1891  The 
Evening  Gazette  is  counted  as  one  of  Worcester's  favorite  papers 

"yTCir'^  -'  «-^-^--«  -  P"--edVthe 

The  educational  advantages  of  Worcester  have  long  maintained  a 
character  or  general  excellence  and  thorough  instruLon  t  !"'«! 

Ides  W         r?"     ''''''"^^'   "°'   "^'^^^  its  schools  of  all 
grades,  Worcester  has  also  a  system  of  free  evening  grammar  high 

during  the  day,  to  prepare  themselves  for  greater  usefulness.     l!  is 
kewise  the  seat  of  Clark  University,  a  college  for  the  higher  educi 
on  an    research;  the  College  of  the  Holy  Cross,  a  leadh .g  i„st  L- 

t:on  of  the  Roman  Catholic  faith;  the  Polytechnic  Instiiute   the 

United  States, aswell  asotherlocal  and  State  institutions  of  learning 

The  course  ofstudy  in  the  high  and  grammar  schools  has  been 

bought  ully  worked  out  after  a  study  and  comparison  of  the  mos" 

approved  systems  of  public  instruction.   Special  care  has  been  taken 

17::  :::7  r'  ''"'^"'  -^'^'^  ^^  '^^  --*->  ^'--tary 

bo  la^d  K  Tr  ^""*  '  ^'''"^  "^^  '^^  --P^"^^^  *o  leave 

school  and  begin  work,  he  may  be  as  far  as  practicable  furnished  with 


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another  Democratic  paper,  appeared,  but  was  continued  only  five 
year.  The  New  England  Hon.  Journal,  a  weeklv,  was  pubLhed 
tHo  or  three  years  and  finally  sold  to  The  Times,  a  Democratic 
paper,  winch  was  published  several  years.  Another  weekly  The 
llustrated  Light,  had  a  similar  career.  Several  French  .'apers 
besides  those  now  in  existence,  have  been  published  in  Wore  ster 

.n  1893  by  Mr.  Alexander  Belisle,  and  in  189G  the  present  companv 

bu.ld.ng  and  real  estate  matters.  The  Telegram  was  established  as 
a  &u.ulay  paper  o..  November  30,  1884,  by  Austi.,  P.  Christv.  The 
hrst  da.ly  ed.tion  appeared  May  19,  1886.  The  Evening' Post  a 
one-cent  Democ-atic  pape.-,  fi,-st  appeared  Septe.nber  23,  1891  Th'e 
Even,.,g  Gazette  is  counted  as  one  of  Worcester's  favorite  papers 
A  present  n.ne  weekly  and  five  daily  papc-s  are  publislJi.!  the 
cit}  01   Worcester. 

The  educational  advantages  of  Worcester  have  long  .naintained  a 
caracter  for  genera,  excellence  and  tho.-ough  i..stru:tion   tha  ta 
greatly  added  to  the  city  as  a  place  of  residence  and  attracted  re^i 

grades.  Worcester  has  also  a  system  of  free  evening  grammar  high 

n   draw.ngschools,afro..di..ganopportunityforyou.fgmene.,gS 
dunng  the  day,  to  prepare  themselves  for  g.eater  usefulness      l!  "s 
.kew.se  the  seat  of  Clark  University,  a  college  for  the  higher  ed 
on  an    research;  the  College  of  the  Holy  Cross,  a  leadlg  i„st   u 
t.on  of  the  Roman  Catholic  faith;  the  Polytechnic  Institute   the 

United  States,aswell  asotherlocal  and  State  institutions  of  learning 

thoultfu'ir     r.''  "  ""  "^"  ""'  ^'-'""'"^^  -"-'^  h-  bei 

thought  ully  worked   out  after  a  study  and  comparison  of  the  most 

''p:::  eTr^  ^'T'  '""^""'^"-  '''-*"'  -- '-  ^-  ^aki 

tud  es        r.  T'  T    ''"'=''^'"  ^°""^  '"  ^'^^  --"*->  ^'-entary 

o     a.;  1  "'rr^  "°'"*  ^  ''''  --^'  ''^  --P^''^^^  ^o  leave 

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the  elements  of  a  good  education,  the  foundation  of  a  good  character 
and  show  promise  of  developing  into  a  law-abiding,  intelligent  citi- 
^en.  The  fixed  purpose  of  those  having  control  of  the  city's  school 
department  has  been  to  secure  to  Worcester  the  highest  standard  of 
excellence,  and  the  results  attained  in  her  public  schools  are  a  source 
ot  pardonable  pride  to  her  citizens. 

The  ten  parks  of  Worcester  are :  Elm  Park,  including  Newton  Hill 
on  the  western  outskirts  of  the  city;  Institute  Park,  on  the  shores  of 
Salisbury  pond,  on  the  northwest;  North  and  Dodge  Parks,  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  city ;  East  Park,  Cromptou  Park,  Universitv 
Park,  the  old  Common,  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  and  the  beautiful 
natural  ake  park  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Quinsigamond,  contain  in 
all  about  three  hundred  and  seventy  acres. 

These  parks  are  a  special  pride  to  the  citizens,  comprising  as  they 

do  some  of  the  finest  sites  for  park  purposes  in  this  State.     Improv^^ 

ments  are  being  made  in  our  parks  every  year,  and  it  is  only  a  ques- 

.on  of  tune  when  our  citizens  will  have  parks  fully  equal  to  anv 

city  of  Its  size  anywhere.  ^ 

.  The  public  libraries  of  the  city  of  Worcester  are  many  and  contain 
three  hundred  and  twelve  thousand  volumes,  which  have  been  grad- 
ually gathered  together,  many  of  them  being  of  great  historical  sig- 
n^ance  and  furnishing  a  means  of  reference  provided  in  very  fe'w 
Cities  of  America.  '^ 

relved'^T  P"*^'- J^'brary  was  founded  December  2.3, 1859,  and  has 
re  e  ved,  through   bequests  and  gifcs,  many  thousands  of  volumes 

alone  containing  over  60,000  volumes,  the  intermediate  department 
having  nearly  45,000  volumes,  the  reading-rooms  providin'g  aZ 
500  papers  and  magazines,  both  American  and  foreign  publiLons. 
The  Green  Library,  consisting  of  about  25,000  volumes,  many  of 
them  very  valuable  as  books  of  reference  and  authority,  was  gfven 
U>  the  city  by  the  late  John  Green,  M.  D.,  and  has  proven  a  very  va, 
uable  addition  to  the  library's  already  large  catalogue 


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One  of  the  most  complete  historical  libraries  in  the  country  is 
that  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  of  this  city.  It  contains 
over  100,000  volumes,  and  has  over  $120,000  with  which  to  meet 
running  expenses  and  add  to  its  collections. 

The  other  libraries  of  the  city  are  the  Mechanics  Library,  which 
has  nearly  12,000  volumes.  The  Society  of  Antiquity  contains 
about  16,000  volumes,  and  has  every  book  touching  upon  the  his- 
tory of  Worcester  and  vicinity,  the  society  looking  up  and  laying 
great  stress  on  local  matters,  while  at  the  same  time  it  does  not 
neglect  general  history  nor  any  phase  of  knowledge. 

The  Horticultural  Library  contains  about  2,500  volumes.  The 
Worcester  County  Law  Library  contains  nearly  13,000  volumes, 
which  are  arranged  in  the  new  County  Court  House.  The  W^or- 
cester  District  Medical  Society  has  about  6,000  volumes.  The 
Homoeopathic  Medical  Society,  1,100  volumes.  The  High  School 
has  a  library  of  2,100  volumes.  Holy  Cross  College  has  a  library 
of  more  than  16,000  volumes.  The  State  Normal  School  has  2,600 
volumes  of  a  general  character,  besides  text-books.  The  Worcester 
Polytechnic  has  a  library  of  2,000  volumes.  Highland  Military 
Academy  has  a  library  of  1,100  volumes.  Worcester  Academy  has 
a  library  of  about  600  volumes.  Clark  University  has  a  library  of 
over  17,000  books  and  1,600  pamphlets,  and  besides  all  these  there 
are  musical  libraries,  church  libraries,  society  libraries  and  hun- 
dreds of  private  libraries. 

The  hospitals  of  a  city  the  size  of  Worcester  are  certainly  worthy 
of  mention.  There  are  many  circumstances  in  which  it  is  impossible 
for  a  patient  to  receive  treatment  at  his  home.  None,  however  com- 
fortably situated,  know  how  soon  they  may  need  the  skill  and  atten- 
tion that  is  always  generously  offered  at  such  institutions.  The 
central  building  of  what  is  now  the  City  Hospital  was  begun  in  May, 
1880,  and  was  occupied  by  patients  in  December  the  following  year. 
There  have  been  added  to  this  building  several  valuable  additions 
and  many  improvements,  until  at  the  present  time  the  hospital  has 
accommodations  for  125  patients,  preference  being  given  to  those 


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dependent  upon  the  city  for  support,  but  when  room  can  be  spared 
paying  patients  are  admitted,  giving  to  the  city  a  hospital  of  its  own, 
where  the  noble  work  of  caring  for  the  pain-laden  and  suffering  peo- 
ple of  the  community  can  be  carried  on,  proving  of  lasting  benefit  to 
the  city.  Connected  with  the  hospital  proper  is  a  nurses'  training 
school,  which  has  been  an  important  feature  of  the  work  since  1883, 
turning  out  yearly  a  number  of  competent  nurses,  who  are  thor- 
oughly capable  of  giving  the  best  of  skilled  attention  to  patients. 

Besides  the  City  Hospital  there  is  an   Isolation  Hospital  on   Bel- 
mont street,  near  Adams  street,  which  has  accommodations  for  forty 
patients,  only  cases  of  diphtheria  and  scarlet  fever,  however,  being 
cared  for,  the  hospital  being  under  thecontrol  of  the  Board  of  Health. 
As  the  name,  implies,  the  Memorial   Hospital,  at  the  corner  of  Bel- 
mont street  and  Oak  avenue,  is  the  outcome  of  a  bequest,  Ichabod 
Washburn  having  at  his  death  left  $100,000  for  the  philanthropic 
purpose   of  erecting  a  hospital  where  women   and  children  could 
receive  treatment.     The  original  hospital,  which  at  first  had  facilities 
for  only  eighteen  patients,  has  been  much  enlarged  and  arranged  with 
wards,  furnishing  accommodations  for  about  sixty  patients;  a  num- 
ber of  private  rooms  are  provided  where  paying  patients  receivecare 
and  treatment.     The  Washburn   Free  Dispensary  is  also  a  part  of 
this  hospital,  thousands  of  poor  people   receiving  gratuitous  treat- 
ment annually.     This  hospital   also  has  a  training  school  in  con- 
nection. 

St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  on  Vernon  street,  corner  Winthrop,  was 
incorporated  in  1878,  and  is  conducted  by  Sisters  of  Providence, 
although  open  to  all  classes. 

Worcester  Hahnemann  Hospital,  at  No.  4(i  Providence  street,  has 
rendered  material  aid  in  caring  for  the  sick  of  the  city.  The  homoeo- 
paths of  this  city  have  established  the  Worcester  Homeopathic  Dis- 
pensary at  No.  44  Waverly  street,  caring  for  all  the  deserving  poor 
who  are  applicants  during  the  regular  treatment  hours. 

Worcester  Lunatic  Hospital,  on  Belmont  street,  opposite  Shrews- 
bury, was  opened  January  18, 1833,  and  is  a  State  institution,  caring 


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dependent  upon  the  city  for  support,  but  when  room  can  be  spared 
paying  patients  are  admitted,  giving  to  the  city  a  hospital  of  itsown, 
wliere  the  noble  work  of  caring  for  the  pain-laden  and  suffering  peo- 
ple of  the  community  can  be  carried  on,  proving  of  lasting  benefit  to 
the  city.  Connected  with  the  hospital  proper  is  a  nurses'  training 
.school,  which  has  been  an  important  feature  of  the  work  since  1883, 
turning  out  yearly  a  number  of  competent  nurses,  who  are  thor- 
oughly capable  of  giving  the  best  of  skilled  attention  to  patients. 

Besides  the  City  Hospital  there  is  an   Isolation  Hospital  on    Bel- 
mont street,  near  Adams  street,  which  has  accommodations  (or  forty 
patients,  only  cases  of  diphtheria  and  scarlet  fever,  however,  being 
cared  for.  the  hospital  being  under  thecontrol  of  the  Board  of  Health. 
As  the  name  implies,  the   Memorial    Hospital,  at  the  corner  of  Bel- 
mont street  and  Oak  avenue,  is  the  outcome  of  a  bequest,  Ichabod 
Washburn  having  at  his  death  left  §100,000  for  the  philanthropic 
purpose   of  erecting  a  hospital   where  women   and  children  could 
receive  treatment.     The  original  hospital,  which  at  first  had  facilities 
for  only  eighteen  patients,  has  been  much  enlarged  and  arrange.l  with 
wards,  fnrni.shing  accommodations  for  about  sixty  patients:  a  num- 
ber  of  private  rooms  are  provided  where  paving  patients  receiveoare 
and  treatment.     The  Washburn   Free  Dispensary  is  also  a  part  of 
this  hospital,  thousands  of  poor  people   receiving  gratuitous  treat- 
n.ent  annually.     This   hospital   also  has  a  training  school  in  con- 
nectioii. 

St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  on  Vernon  street,  corner  Winthrop  was 
incorporated  in  187S,  and  is  conductc.l  by  Sisters  of  Providence, 
although  open  to  all  classes. 

Worcester  Hahnemann  Hospital,  at  No.  4c.  Providence  street,  has 
rendered  material  aid  in  caring  for  the  sick  of  the  citv.  The  liomwo- 
paths  of  this  city  have  established  the  Worcester  Hom^oopathic  Dis- 
l-ensary  at  No.  44  Waverly  street,  caring  for  all  the  deserving  poor 
«ho  are  applicants  during  the  regular  treatment  hours. 

Worcester  Lunatic  Hospital,  on  Belmont  street,  opposite  Shrews- 
bury, was  opened  .January  18,  1833,  and  is  a  State  institution,  caring 


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for  those  of  «reak  mind,  and  that  the  facilities  there  offered  are  appre- 
ciated by  the  people  is  fully  attested  by  the  fact  that  over  20  000 
patients  have  been  received  and  treated  since  it  was  established  ' 

Worcester  Insane  Asylum,  on  Summer  street,  was  established 
according  to  act  of  Legislature,  1877.  The  inmates  consist  only  of 
such  chronic  insane  that  may  be  transferred  from  other  hospitals  by 
the  Board  of  State  Charities.  There  are  also  several  private  hospitals 
for  the  treatment  of  special  diseases. 

The  Worcester  County  Musical  Association  is  the  result  of  various 
attempts  during  the  past  seventy  years  to  establish  societies  for  the 
promotion  of  the  art  of  music.  As  early  as  1826  there  was  an  organ- 
ization in  existence  with  the  name  of  the  Worcester  Harmonic  Soci- 
ety; this  was  followed  by  the  Worcester  Sacred  Music  Society,  which 
gave  Its  first  concert  March  31,  1846.     In   1852  was  organized   the 
Worcester  Musical  Association.     The  Mozart  Society  was  formed  in 
I80O,  and  the  Beethoven  Society  in  1864.     These  two  were  united 
under  the  name  of  the  Mozart  and  Beethoven  Choral  Union  in  1866 
This  society  is  still  in  existence.     The  Worcester  Countv  Musical 
Association  had  its  origin  in  the  musical  conventions  which  began 
in  1858.    In  1863  there  were  two  conventions  held  at  the  sametime 
one  at  the  City  Hall,  under  Mr.  Dorman's  management,  the  other  ai 
Mechanics  Hall  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Moore.     This  divi- 
sion of  interest  occasioned  some  rivalry  at  the  time,  but  resulted  in 
the  permanent  organization  of  the  assembly  at  Mechanics'  Hall 
under  the  name  of  the  Worcester  County  Musical  Convention      Not 
until  1866  was  a  constitution  adopted.      In  1871,  at  the  annual 
meeting  it  was  voted  that  the  name  of  the  society  be  the  Worcester 
County  Musical  Association,  and  that  the  annual  meetings  be  called 
musical  festivals.     The  property  and  funds  held  by  the  Association 
were  considerable,  and  as  early  as  1876  the  first  movement  was  made 
for  incorporation.     This  was  accomplished  in  1879.     In  1865  the 
Worcester  organ  was  placed  in  the  building,  and  this  supplied  the 
one  thing  needful  for  the  complete  success  of  the  festivals.     For  the 
past  twenty  years  the  festivals  have  taken  place  in  the  last  week  in 


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for  those  of  wreak  .nind,and  that  the  facilities  tiiere  offered  are  appre- 
ciated by  the  people  is  fully  attested  by  tiie  fact  that  over  20  000 
patients  have  been  received  and  treated  since  it  was  established  ' 

Worcester  Insane  Asylum,  on  Summer  street,  was  established 
accordnigto  act  of  Legislature.  1S77.  The  inn.ates  consist  only  of 
such  chrome  insane  that  may  be  transferred  from  other  hospitals  by 
the  Board  of  State  ( "harities.  There  are  also  several  private  hospitals 
lor  the  treatment  of  special  diseases. 

The  Worcester  County  Musical  Association  is  the  result  of  various 
attempts  during  the  past  seventy  years  to  establish  societies  for  the 
pron.ot,on  of  the  art  of  music.  As  early  as  1826  there  was  an  organ- 
.nation  u,  existence  with  the  name  of  the  Worcester  Harmonic  Soci- 
ety ;  tins  was  followed  by  the  ^\'oroester  Sacred  Music  Society,  which 
gave  Its  first  concert  March  3],  184G.     In   1852  was  organized  the 
Worcester  Musical  Association.     The  Mozart  Society  was  formed  in 
ISoO,  and  the  Beethoven  Society  in   1864.     These  two  were  united 
under  the  name  of  the  Mozart  and  Beethoven  Choral  Union  in  1866 
This  society  is  still  in   existence.     The  Worcester  Countv   Musical 
Association  had  its  origin  in  the  musical  conventions  which  began 
.n  l.So8.    In  1863  there  were  two  conventions  held  at  the  sametime 
one  at  the  City  Hall,  under  Mr.  Dorman's  management,  the  other  at 
Mechanics'  Hall  under  the  management  of  Mr.  Moore.     This  divi- 
sion of  interest  occasioned   some  rivalry  at  the  time,  but  resulted  in 
the  permanent  organization  of  the  assembly  at  Mechanics'  Hall 
^under  the  name  of  the  Worcester  County  Musical  Convention.     Not 
until  1866  was  a  constitution  adopted.      In   1871,  at  the  annual 
meeting  it  was  voted  that  the  name  of  the  society  be  the  Worcester 
County  Musical  Association,  and  that  the  annual  meetings  be  called 
musical  festivals.     The  property  and  funds  held  by  the  Association 
were  considerable,  and  as  early  as  1876  the  first  movement  was  made 
or  incorporation.     This  was  accomplished  in  1879.     In  1865  the 
Worcester  organ  was  placed  in  the  building,  and  this  supplied  the 
one  thing  needful  for  the  complete  success  of  the  festivals     For  the 
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September.    The  foundation  of  the  festival  is  the  chorus.    There  may 
be  fine  concerts  without  a  chorus,  but  never  a  festival.    The  Worces- 
ter festival  chorus   numbers  about  five  hundred.     To  support  the 
chorus  there  has  always  been  an  orchestra.     This  came  by  degrees, 
through  the  assistance  of  the  Mendelssohn  Quintette  Club,  the  Bos- 
ton Orchestral   Union,  the  Germania  Orchestra,  and,  at' last,  the 
Boston  Symphony  Orchestra,  which  may  challenge  comparison  with 
any  organization  in  the  world.     A  stranger  visiting  Worcester  tlie 
last  week  in  September  could  not  fail  to  be  impressed  by  the  sight  of 
the  throngs  that  may  be  seen  entering  or  leaving  Mechanics'  Hall. 
The  week  of  song  has  proved  a  powerful  magnet  to  draw,  not  only 
townspeople,  but  large  numbers  from  neighboring  and  distant  points 
m  the  United  States  and  the  British  Provinces.  The  Association  has 
had  but  five  presidents:  Samuel  E.  Staples,  Esq.,  served  for  the  first 
ten  years;  Hon.  William  R.  Hill  succeeded  him,  serving  until  1887- 
Hon.   Edward   L.  Davis,   from    1887  to  1893;  A.  C.  Munroe    from 
1893  to  1896,  and  C.  M.  Bent  is  the  present  incumbent,  and  its 
board  of  government  is  composed  of  thirteen  members.      In  com- 
paring the  work  of  this  association  with  that  of  similar  organizations 
elsewhere,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  Worcester  has  the  repu- 
tation of  being  the  only  city  in  the  world   that  maintains  a  great 
annual  festival. 

There  is  probably  no  city  in  the  State  that  can   show  a  greater 
number  of  prosperous,  benevolent  and  secret  societies  than   Wor 
cester.     This  is  owing  to  the  fact  that  it  possesses  among  its  citizens 
material  that  is  absolutely  essential  to  the  establishment  and  main 
tenance  of  successful  fraternal  orders.     Nearly  every  order  in  the 
country  is  represented,  and  many  citizens  have  held   honored  and 
influential  positions  in  the  various  grand  lodges  of  the  organizations 
represented  here.     Worcester  is  the  home  of  many  eminent  mem- 
bers of  the  Masonic,  O.  U.  A.  M.,  B.  P.  0.  E.,  Knights  of  Pythias 
1.  0.0.  K,  k.  of  C.  and  other  orders,  besides  a   large  number  of 
social  organizations. 


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WORCESTEli  OK  TO- HAY.  59 

September.    The  foundation  of  the  festival  is  tlie  diorus.    There  may 
be  tine  concerts  witiiout  a  chorus,  but  never  a  festival.    The  Worces- 
ter festival  chorus   numbers  about  five  hundred.     To  support  the 
ciiorus  there  has  always  been  an  orchestra.     This  came  by  degrees, 
through  the  assistance  of  the  Mendelssohn  (Quintette  Club,  the  Bos- 
ton  Orchestral    Union,   the  Uermania  Orchestra,   and,  at' last,  the 
Boston  Symphony  Orchestra,  which  may  challenge  comparison  with 
any  organization  in  the  world.     A  stranger  visiting  Worcester  the 
last  week  in  September  could  not  fail  to  be  impressed  by  the  sight  of 
the  throngs  that  may  be  seen  entering  or  leaving  Mechanics'  Hall. 
The  week  of  song  has  proved  a  powerful  magnet  to  draw,  not  only 
townspeople,  but  large  numbers  from  neighboring an.l  distant  points 
.n  the  United  .States  and  the  British  Provinces.  The  .Association  has 
had  but  five  presidents:  Samuel  E.  Staples,  Es,).,  .serve.l  for  the  first 
ten  years;  Hon.  William  R.  Hill  succeeded  him,  serving  until  1887- 
Hon.   Edward   E.  Davis,   from    1887  to  1808;  A.  C.  Munroe    from 
189:5  to  18»6,  and  V.  M.  Bent  is  the  present  incu.nbent,  and  its 
board  of  government  is  composed  of  thirteen  members.      In  com- 
paring the  work  of  this  association  with  that  of  similar  organizations 
elsewhere,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  Worcester  has  the  repu- 
tation of  being  the  only  city  in  the  world   that  maintains  a  great 
annual  festival. 

There  is  probably  no  city  in  the  State  that  can   show  a  greater 
number  of  prosperous,  benevolent  and  secret  societies  than    Wor- 
cester.    This  is  owing  to  the  fact  that  it  possesses  among  its  citizens 
niatenal  that  is  absolutely  essential  to  the  establishment  and   main 
tenance  of  successful  fraternal  orders.     Nearlv  every  order  in  the 
country  is  represented,  and  many  citizens   have  held   honored  and 
.nfluential  positions  in  the  various gran.l  lodges  of  the  organizations 
represented  here.     Worcester  is  the  home  of  manv  eminent  mem- 
bers of  theMa.sonic,  O.  U.  A.  M.,  B.  V.  0.  E..  Knights  of  Pythias, 
'•  "■  <»■  1-..  K.  of  C.  ami  other  orders,  besides  a   large  number  of 
social  organization.e. 


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Frederick  W.  Rice,  Proprietor. 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY.  ei 

After  considering  the  past  of  Worcester  and  the  really  wonderful 
things  that  have  been  accomplished  in  the  last  few  years,  it  is  diffi- 
cult to  speak  of  the  future  with  that  judicial  calmness  and  freedom 
from  excessive  optimism  which  is  necessary  to  come  to  approximately 
correct  conclusions.     Her  products  already  find  a  market  all  over 
the  country,  and  are  also  shipped  largely  to  Europe  and  other  foreign 
countries.     Her  stores  of  all  kinds  compare  favorably  with  those  of 
any  other  city  in  America,  while  her  young  business  men  are  noted 
for  their  enterprise,  and  the  progressive  spirit  of  the  times  has  like- 
wise exerted  its  influence  upon  the  older  houses.     Rapid  as  the  city's 
strides  have  been  in  the  past  decade,  the  next  generation  will  see  an 
extensive  enlargement  of  its  manufacturing  industries,  commensu- 
rate with  the  ambition  of  her  citizens.    As  the  years  roll  on  Worces- 
ter will  have  become  not  only  the  center  of  trade  of  a  widespread 
railway  system  and  the  marts  of  vast  manifold  industrial  activities, 
but  also  the  center  of  great  business  interests,  of  which  those  already 
located  here  are  but  the  precursors. 

Worcester  presents  a  thousand  attractions  to  the  student,  patriot, 
statesman,  wage-earner  and  enterprising  capitalist  seeking  safe  invest- 
ments in  real  estate  or  in  the  establishment  of  productive  industries. 
The  time  is  not  far  distant  when  the  present  population  of  Worcester 
and  environs  will  have  become  doubled  in  number,  and  when  of  the 
United  States  it  shall  be  what  it  is  now  of  the  New  England  States, 
one  of  the  most  attractive  cities  for  the  display  of  industrial  and 
commercial  enterprises. 

Her  wholesale  trade  has  steadily  and  rapidly  increased  within  a 
few  years,  is  in  a  most  healthy  and  prosperous  condition,  while  the 
number  and  elegance  of  her  retail  houses  are  famous  and  her  leading 
merchants  are  conspicuous  for  their  enterprise  and  stability.  No  one 
who  watches  carefully  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  communities, 
whose  soul  is  enlivened  with  progressive  ideas,  which  characterize  an 
intelligent  and  enterprising  people,  will  dispute  the  fact  that  right 
here  is  located  one  of  the  coming  cities  of  the  world,  that  will  be  the 
recognized  standard  by  which  other  cities  will  be  compared. 


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FRtuEKicK  \V.  KiCE,  Proprietor. 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAV.  gi 

After  considering  the  past  of  Worcester  and  the  really  wonderful 
things  that  have  been  accomplished  in  the  last  few  years,  it  is  diffi- 
cult to  speak  of  the  future  with  that  judicial  calmness  and  freedom 
from  excessive  optimism  which  is  necessary  to  come  to  approximately 
correct  conclusions.     Her  products  already  find  a  market  all  over 
the  country,  and  are  also  shipped  largely  to  Europe  and  other  foreign 
countries.     Her  stores  of  all  kinds  compare  favorably  with  those  of 
any  other  city  in  America,  while  her  young  business  men  are  noted 
for  their  enterprise,  and  the  progressive  spirit  of  the  times  has  like- 
wise exerted  its  influence  upon  the  older  houses.     Rapid  as  the  city's 
strides  have  been  in  the  past  decade,  the  next  generation  will  see  an 
extensive  enlargement  of  its  manufacturing  industries,  commensu- 
rate with  the  ambition  of  her  citizens.    As  the  years  roll  on  Worces- 
ter  will  have  become  not  only  the  center  of  trade  of  a  widespread 
railway  system  and  the  marts  of  vast  manifold  industrial  activities, 
but  also  the  center  of  great  business  interests,  of  which  those  already 
located  here  are  but  the  precursors. 

Worcester  presents  a  thousand  attractions  to  the  student,  patriot, 
statesman,  wage-earner  and  enterprising  capitalist  seeking  safe  invest- 
ments in  real  estate  or  in  the  establishment  of  productive  industries. 
The  time  is  not  far  distant  when  the  present  population  of  Worcester 
and  environs  will  have  become  doubled  in  number,  and  when  of  the 
United  States  it  shall  be  what  it  is  now  of  the  New  P^ngland  States, 
one  of  the  most  attractive  cities  for  the  display  of  industrial  and 
commercial  enterprises. 

Her  wholesale  trade  has  steadily  and  rapidly  increased  within  a 
few  years,  is  in  a  most  healthy  and  prosperous  condition,  while  the 
number  and  elegance  of  her  retail  houses  are  famous  and  her  leading 
merchants  are  conspicuous  for  their  enterprise  and  stability.  No  one 
who  watches  carefully  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  communities, 
whose  soul  is  enlivened  with  progressive  ideas,  which  characterize  an 
intelligent  and  enterprising  people,  will  dispute  the  fact  that  right 
here  is  located  one  of  the  coming  cities  of  the  world,  that  will  be  the 
recognized  standard  by  which  other  cities  will  be  compared. 


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Worcester  Business  Institute. 


While  Worcester  is  an  educational  center,  a  description  of  its 
educational  advantages  would  not  be  complete  without  including 
the  Worcester  Business  Institute.  The  school  should  not  be  classed 
with  the  ordinary  business  college,  because  it  is  run  on  a  much 
higher  plane.  It  is  an  educational  institution,  not  simply  a  business 
enterprise. 

It  is  the  design  of  this  school,  by  its  comprehensive  course  of 
instruction  and  its  thorough  training  in  mercantile  atiairs,  and 
correct  business  habits,  to  render  its  graduates  distinguishable  by 
their  manly  and  womanly  bearing  and  good  business  principles,  as 
well  as  noted  for  industry,  perseverance  and  enterprise. 

There  is  probably  no  school  in  Central  New  England  that  is  better 
equipped.  The  rooms  are  large,  light,  pleasant  and  airy.  The 
business  department  is  fitted  with  oak  roll-top  desks.  New  Standard 
typewriters  are  used  in  the  Shorthand  Department.  Unquestionably, 
one's  surroundings  have  much  to  do  with  the  formation  of  character 
and  habits,  and  this  principle  is  as  true  in  the  secular  as  in  the 
religious  training. 

Besides  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  Seneca  County,  N.  Y., 
for  several  years,  Mr.  Post's  experience  in  business  college  work  has 
been  with  the  Rochester  Business  Institute,  Elliott's  Business  College, 
Burlington,  Iowa;  Jersey  City  Business  College,  and  for  five  years 
he  was  the  head  teacher  at  Becker's  Business  College,  Worcester,  Mass. 

The  Actual  Business  Practice  is  an  entirely  new  departure  in  this 
section,  and  it  is  without  question  the  simplest,  most  direct,  and  most 
effective  means  of  illustrating  practical  business  that  has  ever  been 
devised.  It  may  not  be  amiss  to  state  here  that  the  methods  em- 
ployed are  original  with  the  principal  of  this  school. 


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Biography  of  Henry  Brannon. 

Henry  Brannon  was  born  in  Nottingham,  England,  March  7, 
1850,  and  in  his  infancy  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Princeton^ 
Mass.,  where  he  lived  until  16  years  of  age.  He  received  his  educa' 
tion  in  the  common  schools  of  Princeton  and  came  to  Worcester  in 


HKNRY  BRANNON. 

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Worcester  Business  Institute. 

Wliile  Worcester  is  an  ediicationjil  center,  a  description  of  its 
educational  advantages  would  not  be  complete  without  including 
the  Worcester  business  Institute.  The  school  should  not  be  classed 
with  the  ordinary  business  college,  because  it  is  run  on  a  much 
higher  plane.  It  is  an  educational  institution,  not  simply  a  business 
enterprise. 

It  is  the  design  of  this  school,  by  its  comprehensive  course  of 
instruction  and  its  thorough  training  in  mercantile  affairs,  and 
correct  business  habits,  to  render  its  graduates  distinguishable  by 
their  manly  and  womanly  bearing  and  good  business  j>rinciples,  as 
well  as  noted  for  industry,  perseverance  and  enterprise. 

There  is  probably  no  school  in  Central  New  Kngland  that  is  better 
equipped.  The  rooms  are  large,  light,  [)leasant  and  airy.  The 
business  department  is  fitted  with  oak  roll-top  desks.  New  Standard 
typewriters  are  used  in  the  Shorthand  Department.  Un(piestional)ly. 
one's  surroundings  have  much  to  do  with  the  formation  of  character 
and  habits,  and  this  })rinciplc  is  as  true  in  the  secular  as  in  the 
religious  training. 

Besides  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  Seneca  County,  N.  Y., 
for  several  years,  Mr.  Post's  experience  in  business  college  work  has 
been  with  the  Rochester  Business  Institute,  P^lliott's  Business  College, 
Burlington,  Iowa;  Jersey  City  Business  College,  and  for  five  years 
he  was  the  head  teacher  at  Becker's  Business  (Allege,  Worcester,  Ma.ss. 

The  Actual  Business  Practice  is  an  entirely  new  dej>arture  in  this 
section,  and  it  is  without  question  the  simplest,  most  direct,  and  most 
effective  means  of  illustrating  practical  business  tliat  has  ever  been 
devised.  It  may  not  be  amiss  to  state  here  that  the  methods  em- 
ployed are  original  with  the  principal  of  this  school. 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY.  63 

Bios:raphy  of  Henry  Brannon. 

Henry  Brannon  was  born  in  Nottingham,  England,  March  7, 
18.')0,  and  in  his  infancy  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Princeton^ 
Mass..  where  he  lived  until  10  years  of  age.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  Princeton  and  came  to  Worcester  in 


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Thomas  H.  Dodge 

Was  born  at  Eden,  Vermont,  on  the  27th  day  of  September,  1823. 
His  early  life  was  passed  on  the  farm,  with  such  educational  advan- 
tages as  the  country  district  schools  afforded.     When  he  was  four- 
teen years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Nashua,  New  Hampshire, 
and  soon  after  he  entered  the  employment  of  the  Nashua  Manufact^ 
uring  Company,  where  he  acquired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  cotton- 
carding,   spinning,   dressing  and   weaving,  as  well   as  a   complete 
understanding  of  the  machinery  and  methods  used  in  the  business. 
He   invented  and   introduced   several  valuable  improvements  and 
innovations  which  attracted  much  attention  at  the  time.     He  not 
only  possessed  a  natural  aptitude  in  mechanics,  but  he  was  endowed 
with  a  genius  which  enabled  him  to  quickly  comprehend  and  over- 
come difficulties  which  with  others  required  much  study,  time  and 
labor.     Such  a  man  would  not  long  remain  an  employe,  but  would 
make  a  position  for  himself     While  working  in  the  cotton  mill 
Mr.  Dodge  continued  his  studies,  and  at  times  attended  the  public 
and  academic  schools  in  Nashua  and  elsewhere;  and  finally  taking 
up  the  study  of  law,  while  pursuing  the  study  of  Latin  under  a  pri- 
vate tutor,  was  admitted  to  practice  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire, 
in  1854.     In  the  meantime  several   important  inventions,  and  a 
treatise  on  the  manufacture  of  cotton  and  woolen  goods,  had  brought 
him  into  prominence.     In  March,  1855,  he  was  appointed  Assistant 
Examiner  of  Patents  by  Commissioner  Mason,  and   removed  to 
Washington.     He  was  soon  after  made  chief  examiner,  and  later 
became  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Appeals   under  Commissioner 
Holt,  which  office  he  resigned  in  the  fall  of  1858,  and  in  reference 
to  the  letter  of  the  Commissioner  of  Patents  in   accepting  Mr 
Dodge's  resignation,  the  venerable  editor-in-chief  of  the  National 
Intelligencer,  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  declared  that  no 
public  officer,  resigning,  had  ever  received  from  his  superior  such  a 
touching  and  heartfelt  tribute  as  that  paid  by  Commissioner  Holt  to 
Mr.  Dodge.     Mr.  Dodge  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  and  during  the  twenty-five  years  from 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


1858  to  1883  was  engaged  in  large  and  lucrative  legal  practice, 
mostly  in  cases  relating  to  patent  interests.  During  this  time  he 
was  also  connected  with  several  manufacturing  enterprises,  notably 
agricultural  machinery  and  barbed-wire  fencing.  He  removed  to 
Worcester  in  1864,  and  has  since  that  date  made  this  city  his  home. 
In  1883  he  retired  from  active  business,  and  has  devoted  himself  of 
late  years  to  the  care  and  enjoyment  of  his  estates. 

Many  of  the  great  public  and  industrial  improvements  of  the 
past  fifty  years  have  been  impressed  by  the  mark  of  his  forethought 
and  genius,  and  a  few  that  have  proved  of  vast  benefit  to  the  public 
generally  may  be  briefly  alluded  to.  In  1850  he  realized  the  disad- 
vantages of  the  imperfect  and  slow  methods,  then  in  use,  for  print- 
ing paper,  and  the  result  of  his  studies  was  the  production  of  a 
printing  press  to  print  from  a  roll  of  paper,  and  the  publicity  of  this 
invention,  which  w^as  a  great  success,  was  the  beginning  of  a  new 
era  in  machinery  for  printing  paper,  which  resulted  or  culminated 
in  the  production  of  the  lightning  presses  of  the  present  day,  in 
which  the  blank  paper  is  fed  direct  from  the  roll. 

In  1856,  then  residing  in  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  he 
became  interested  in  the  ''dead  letter"  branch  of  the  General  Post- 
office  Department,  and  proposed  to  General  Skinner,  Assistant  Post- 
master General,  to  have  the  letters  returned  to  the  writers  when  not 
taken  from  the  postofflce  to  which  they  were  directed,  instead  of 
being  sent  to  the  dead-letter  office,  and  on  the  8tli  of  August,  1856, 
a  written  description  of  his  plan  (identical  with  that  now  in  use) 
was  submitted  to  Honorable  James  Campbell,  Postmaster-General, 
and  although  for  sometime  it  was  opposed  by  some  officials  and 
members  of  Congress,  it  struck  the  public  ear  favorably  and  in  time 
received  the  sanction  of  law,  and  the  present  generation  receives 
and  enjoys  the  benefits  and  the  advantages  resulting  from  the 
change.  In  1857  the  double-hinged  bar  mowing  machine  was  first 
introduced.  By  this  construction  either  end  of  the  finger-bar  and 
cutting  apparatus  could  rise  and  fall  independently,  while  the  entire 
finger-bar  and  cutting  apparatus  could  rise  and  fall  bodily.     The 


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cutting  apparatus  could  therefore  conform  freely  to  the  undulations 
of  the  ground  and  thus  cut  the  grass  even  and  close  upon  uneven 
surfaces;   but  there  were  found  to    be  serious  objections  to  the 
machine  in  practical  operation,  since  one  man  was  required  to  drive 
the  team  while  another  man  had  to  walk  behind  the  cutting  appa- 
ratus to  lift  it  over  obstructions,  this  last  operation  being  attended 
with  great  danger,  even  though  the  driver  slackened  speed  for  the 
time  being.     Mr.  Dodge  devised  mechanism   whereby   the  driver 
from  his  seat  on  the  machine  could  have  full  control  of  the  entire 
finger-bar  and  cutting  apparatus,  raising  either  end  or  the  entire  cut- 
ting apparatus  as  occasion  might  require,  and  that,  too,  without 
stopping  the  machine,  thus  enabling  one  man  and  team  to  do  three 
times  the  work;  and  easier  than  could  be  performed  by  two  men  as 
the  machine  was  first  made,  and  it  is  estimated  that  during  the  hay- 
ing season  the  services  of  one  million  and  a  half  of  laborers  are 
saved  by  the  use  of  the  principles  of  this  invention,  which  is  in  gen- 
eral use  in  this  and  foreign  countries. 

Mr.  Dodge  is  a  man  of  active  benevolence  and  public  spirit.  His 
gifts  of  Dodge  park  to  the  city,  and  of  the  tract  of  land  for  the  Odd 
Fellows'  Home,  which  are  more  particularly  mentioned  elsewhere  in 
th.8  volume,  are  sufficient  evidence  of  this.  The  Natural  Historv 
Society,  Union,  Trinity,  Methodist  and  Piedmont  churches  and 
other  institutions  may  be  named  among  those  which  have  received 
large  benefactions  from  him.  He  is  a  man  of  impressive  personality 
and  dignified  presence,  yet  of  a  genial  disposition,  finding  his  chief 
satisfaction  in  the  contemplation  of  a  past  life  usefully  employed 
He  married,  in  1843,  Miss  Eliza  Daniels,  of  Brookline,  New  Hamp- 
shire.    They  have  no  children. 


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FOUNTAIN  SPRING. 

NA/ILLO\A<^   PARK. 

THOMAS   H.  DODGE'S   GROUNDS. 

NA/ORCESTER,    MASS. 


TO  THE  ANCIENT  WILLOW. 


1. 

Streams  from  earth's  most  sacred  place, 
Poured  at  Oread's  rocky  base, 
Filled  thee  with  the  vital  force 
Of  the  planet's  deathless  course 
Ages  gone,  till  thou  hadst  grown 
And  made  the  upper  skies  thine  own. 
And  still  thy  tender  vernal  shoots 
Take  the  thrill  those  eager  roots 
Feel,  deep  hidden  from  the  sun, 
Where  those  crystal  sluices  run. 

2. 

Who  thy  mystic  rede  shall  spell, 

Who  thy  generations  tell? 

Haply  in  the  open  glade 

The  lover  of  some  dusky  maid 

Cast  thee  once,  a  supple  wand. 

O'er  thee  since  what  days  have  dawned. 

What  innumerable  hours 

White  with  storm  and  grey  with  showers, 

Mornings  bursting  rosy  bars. 

Purple  evenings  sown  with  stars! 


Long  ago,  from  ambush  sprung, 
Through  thy  depths  the  war-whoop  rung! 
Awful  lights  about  thee  blazed 
When  the  braves  their  war-song  raised! 
Round  thee  curled  what  clouds  of  fleece 
When  they  smoked  their  pipe  of  peace! 
Cobwebs  in  the  vanished  gleam,' 
Less  than  shadows  of  a  dream, 
Even  their  dust  is  blown  away, — 
Thou  and  thy  green  branches  stay! 


4. 

Thou  hadst  known  how  many  springs 
Of  building  birds  and  darting  wings 
When  thy  great  tops  caught  the  fires 
Of  Freedom's  sunrise,  and  our  sires 
For  a  cause  that  was  the  Lord's 
Turned  their  sickles  into  swords! 
Thou  hast  seen  those  conquering  men 
Beat  their  swords  to  ploughshares  then, 
And  the  hamlet  in  its  health 
Grow  a  mighty  commonwealth. 

5. 

Rent  was  all  thy  ancient  mail. 

Familiar  of  the  winter  gale. 

That  night  the  bell-towers'  wild  alarms. 

Called  a  nation  into  arms. 

And  trembling  to  the  squadron's  tread 

Earth  made  ready  for  her  dead. 

Torn  and  twisted,  gnarled,  yet  green, 

Living  ruin,  thou  hast  seen 

Empire  from  sea  to  sea  complete 

And  History  pausing  at  thy  feet. 

6. 

Alas,  alas,  we  come  and  go. 

And  still  thy  yellow  tassels  blow, 

Still    shall    thy   quickening   reddening 

sprays 
Be  first  to  promise  genial  days 
Of  April,  with  her  bright  face  wet, 
And  the  remembered  violet. 
Still  shalt  thou  toss  thee  grey  and  hoar 
When  ruffling  winds  across  thee  soar 
In  thy  undying  life,  while  we 
Fall  like  thy  leaves,  Old  Willow  Tree! 
Harriet  Pre8cx)tt  Spofford. 


Note— We  regret  to  announce  that  during  the  storm  in  the  spring  of  1899  the  Ancient  Willow 
suffered  considerable  damage,  yet  still  stands  and  thrives. 


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WILLONA/   PARK. 

THOMAS    H.   DODGE'S   GROUNDS. 

NA/ORCESTER.    MASS. 


TO  THE   ANCIENT  WILLOW. 

1. 

Streams  from  t'arth's  most  sacrt'd  place, 
Poured  at  Oread's  rocky  base. 
Filled  thee  with  the  vital  force 
Of  the  planet's  deathless  course 
Ages  gone,  till  thou  hadst  grown 
And  made  the  upprr  skies  thine  own. 
And  still  thy  tender  vernal  shoots 
Take  the  thrill  those  eager  roots 
Feel,  deep  hitlden  from  tlie  sun, 
Wht-re  thos*'  crvstal  sluices  run. 


Who  thy  mystic  rede  shall  spell, 

Who  thy  generations  tellV 

Haply  in  the  open  glade 

The  lover  of  sonie  dusky  maid 

Cast  thee  once,  a  supple  wand. 

O'er  thee  since  what  days  have  dawmd, 

What  innumerable  hours 

White  with  .'*torm  and  grey  with  showers, 

Mornings  bursting  rosy  bars, 

Purple  evenings  sown  with  stars! 

Long  ago.  from  ambush  sprung. 
Through  thy  depths  the  war-whoop  rung! 
Awful  lights  about  thee  blazed 
When  the  braves  their  war-song  raised! 
Round  thee  curled  what  clouds  of  lleece 
When  they  smoked  their  \)\\w  of  j)eace! 
Cobwebs  in  the  vanished  gU-am, 
Less  than  sliadows  of  a  dream, 
Even  their  dust  is  blown  away, — 
Thou  and  thy  green  branches  stav! 


Thou  liadst  known  how  many  springs 
Of  building  birds  and  darting  wings 
When  thy  great  tops  caught  the  tires 
Of  Freedom's  sunrise,  an(i  our  sires 
For  a  cause  tliat  was  the  Lorii's 
Turned  their  sickles  into  8w«»rds! 
Thou  hast  seen  those  conijuering  men 
Beat  their  swords  to  ploughshares  tiien, 
And  the  hamlet  in  its  health 
Orow  a  mighty  commonwealth. 

5. 

Rent  was  all  thy  ancient  mail, 
Familiar  of  the  winter  gale. 
That  night  the  bell-towers'   wild  alarms, 
Called  a  nation  into  arms, 
I  And  treud)ling  to  the  npiadron's  tread 
Earth  made  ready  for  her  dead. 
Torn  and  tw  isied,  gnarled,  yet  green, 
f.iving  ruin,  thou  liast  seen 
Empire  from  sea  to  sea  complete 
And  History  pausing  at  thy  feet. 

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Alas,  alas,  we  come  and  go, 

And  still  thy  yellow  tassels  blow. 

Still    shall    thy    quickening    reddening 

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Of  April,  with  her  bright  face  wet, 
And  the  remend)ered  violet. 
Still  shalt  thou  toss  thee  grey  and  hoar 
When  ru tiling  w  inds  across  thee  soar 
In  thy  undying  life,  while  we 
Fall  like  thy  leaves.  Old  Wilh.w  Tree! 
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The  E.  T.  Smith  Company. 

The  E.  T.  Smith  Company  easily  rank  as  the  representative  coffee 
importing  and  roasting  house  in  central  New  England  and  in  gen- 
eral equipment  for  handling  that  article  areas  well  fitted  as  any  firm 
in  the  business.  All  that  modern  science  and  invention  has  devel- 
oped in  improved  processes  and  machinery,  may  be  found  in  their 
coffee  rooms. 


E.  T.  S7VVITH   C07WPKNV.   WHOUEST^I-E  CROCHRS. 

The  steady  growth  of  the  E.  T.  Smith  Comi)any's  business  since 
its  inception  in  1858  is  the  best  evidence  of  the  ability  of  its  man- 
agement and  the  favor  it  has  found  among  the  New  England  trade. 

The  Constitution  Mocha  and  Java,  their  leading  brand  of  fine 
coffee,  is  more  widely  and  favorably  known  to  the  people  of  Worces- 
ter county  than  any  other  brand.  They  have  endeavored  to  protect 
the  consumers  by  having  a  special  blue  bag  in  which  retailers 
must  send  out  the  -Constitution  Coffee,"  and  it  will  be  noticed  that 
all  of  their  advertisements  instruct  the  buyer  to  call  for  the  coffee 
sold  in  ''blue  bags,"  for  that  means  ''Constitution,"  and  "Constitu- 
tion" means  the  finest  coffee  obtainable. 


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The  E.  T.  Smith  Company. 

The  K.  T.  Smith  (•«Mii|.;niy  caHly  rank  u.s  the  ivpiesentative  coffee 
iniportii)-  and  roastino  house  in  eentral  New  Kn.trhmd  and  in  gen- 
eral e<inii>rnent  lor  lian.llinir  that  article  areas  well  titted  asanvfirm 
in  the  husiness.  All  that  modern  ^irnrv  .-.n.l  nivmlion  has  devel- 
oped in  improved  prceesscs  and  machinery,  may  he  found  in  their 
cotiee  rooms. 


E.   T.   S7WITH    C07WPANV.    WHOLESALE    GROCERS. 

The  .Steady  growth  of  the  K.  T.  Smith  Companys  husiness  since 
its  inception  in  l.sr)S  is  the  hest  evidence  of  the  a])ility  of  its  man- 
agement and  the  lavor  it  has  f.,und  among  the  Nrw  England   trade. 

TheCon.stitution  .M(K-ha  and  -lava,  their  leading  hrand  of  line 
cotlee,  is  more  widely  and  favorahly  known  to  the  i>e<»ple  of  Worces- 
ter county  than  any  other  hrand.  They  ha  v.-  endeavored  to  protect 
the  <-onsumers  hy  having  a  .sp^^cial  hlue  hag  in  which  retailers 
nmst  send  out  the  '•(  onstituti(m  Collee,"  and  it  will  he  noticed  that 
idl  of  their  advertisements  instruct  the  huyer  to  call  for  the  coffee 
sold  in  -hlue  hags."  for  that  means  "Con.stitution,"  and  '' Constitu- 
tion" means  the  finest  collee  ohtainable. 


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Worcester  Electric  Light  Company. 

Electricity  for  lighting  and  power  purposes  was  introduced  into 
Worcester  in  1883  by  the  Worcester  Electric  Light  Company,  a  cor- 
poration  chartered   to  furnish  light,  heat  and  power  in  the  city  of 
Worcester,  having  been  organized  that  year.    The  original  capital  of 
the  company  was  $100,000,  and  increased  from  time  to  time  until  it 
became  (as  at  present)  $300,000.     The  initial  plant  was  near  Frank- 
lin square,  but  in  188i)  a  tract  of  some  61,000  square  feet  on  Faraday 
street  was  secured,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  the  present  exception- 
ally  fine  power  station,  one  of  the  best  in  the  Union,  was  erected. 
The  main  building  is  a  substantial   brick  structure  having  ground 
lines  200x75  feet  and  is  two  stories  high  above  the  basement.  The  en- 
gine room  is  112x42  feet  and  the  boiler  house,  150x46  feet.     The 
machinery  room  embraces  all  of  the  main  floor,  one  mammoth  room 
withoutpartitionsand,  being  abundantly  supplied  with  windows  on  its 
four  sides,  it  is  particularly  well  lighted.     Four  compound  condens- 
ing engines  furnish  a  total  steam  power  of  2,500  horse  power.     In 
way  of  dynamos,  generators  and  apparatus  generally   which  enter 
into  successful  operating,  no  electric  plant  is  better  equipped.     New 
machinery  and  appliances  are  constantly  being  added,  and  one  of 
the  late  additions  is  a  mammoth  switchboard  of  blue  Vermont  mar- 
ble.    This  is  of  recent  design,  and  standing,  as  it  does,  in  the  center 
of  the  great  room,  it  makes  an  attractive  as  well  as  useful  centerpiece 
to  an  interesting  whole.     More  than  150  miles  of  wire  are  in  use  in 
and   about  the  city.     The  lines  are  extended  as  far  as  the  needs 
require,  and  the  capacity  of  the  plant  is  being  correspondingly  in- 
creased.   Improvements  in  method  or  apparatus  are  quickly  adopted 
and,  perceiving  the  trend  of  the  times,  the  company  has  been  grad- 
ually preparing  to  place  much  of  its  wire  underground,  particularly 
in  the  business  districts.  The  Worcester  Electric  Company  is  a  Wor- 
cester enterprise,  owned  and  controlled  by  Worcester  men,  who,  also 
having  other  large  interests  in  the  place,  naturally  have  the  city's 
welfare  at  heart.     Its  affairs  are  ably  conducted,  its  policy  is  liberal 
and  progressive,  the  service  is  uniformly  good,  and  in  matters  of  elec- 
tric lighting  and  power  the  city  is  well  provided.     The  officers  of  the 
company  are:  Thomas M.  Rodgers,  president;  Herbert  H.  Fairbanks 
treasurer   and    secretary;    William   H.   Coughlin,   superintendent' 
Directors,  Thomas  M.  Rodgers,  Stephen  Salisbury,  Theodore  C  Bates 
Loring  Coes,  A.  B.  R.  Sprague,  Josiah  Pickett,  E.  D.  Buffington        ' 


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Worcester  Electric  Light  Company. 

Electricity  for  li^rhtintr  ^iid  power  {)ur|K)ses  was  introduced  into 
Worcester  in  l,SS;i  by  the  Worcester  Electric  Light  Ooinj)any,  a  cor- 
poration  chartered   to  furnish  light,  heat  and  power  in  the  city  of 
Worcester,  having  been  organized  that  year.    The  original  capital  of 
the  company  was  8100,000,  and  increased  from  time  to  time  until  it 
became  (as  at  present)  $:500,000.     The  initial  plant  was  near  Frank- 
lin square,  butin  1S81>  a  tract  of  some  01,000  S(iuare  feet  on  Faraday 
street  was  secured,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  the  present  exception- 
ally  fine  j)o\ver  station,  one  of  the  best  in   the  Union,  was  erected. 
The  main  building  is  a  substantial    brick  structure  having  ground 
lines  200x75  feet  and  is  two  stories  high  above  the  basement.  The  en- 
gine room    is  11i>x4l>  feet  and  the  boiler  house,  ir,0x40  feet.     The 
machinery  room  embraces  all  of  the  main  Hoor,  one  mammoth  room 
withoutpartitionsand,  being  abundantly  supplied  with  windows  on  its 
four  sides,  it  is  particularly  well  lighted.     Four  compound  condens- 
ing engines  furnish  a   total  steam   power  of  2,500  horse  power.     In 
way  of  dynamos,  generators  and  apparatus  generally   which  enter 
into  successful  operating,  no  electric  plant  is  better  equipped.     New 
machinery  and  aj)pliances  are  constantly  being  added,  and  one  of 
the  late  additions  is  a  mammoth  switchboard  of  blue  \^ermont  mar- 
ble.    This  is  of  recent  design,  and  standing,  as  it  does,  in  the  center 
of  the  great  room,  it  makes  an  attractive  as  well  as  useful  centerpiece 
to  an  interesting  whole.     Mure  than  150  miles  of  wire  are  in  use  in 
and    about  the  city.     The  lines  are  extended  as  far  as  the  needs 
require,  and  the  capacity  of  the  plant  is  being  correspondingly  in- 
creased.   Improvements  in  method  or  apparatus  are  quickly  adopted 
and,  perceiving  the  trend  of  the  times,  the  company  has  been  grad- 
ually j)reparing  to  place  much  of  its  wire  underground,  particularly 
in  the  busiiiess  districts.  The  Worcester  Electric  Company  is  a  Wor- 
cester enterprise,  owned  and  controlled  by  Worcester  men,  who,  also 
having  other  large  interests  in  the  place,  naturally  have  the  city's 
welfare  at  heart.     Its  afiairs  are  ably  conducted,  its  policy  is  liberal 
and  progressive,  the  service  is  uniformly  good,  and  in  matters  of  elec- 
tric lighting  and  power  the  city  is  well  provided.     The  officers  of  the 
company  are:  Thomas M.  Kodgers, president;   Herbert  H.  Fairbanks 
treasurer   and    secretary;    William    IL    Coughlin,    superintendent' 
Directors,  Thomas iM.  Ilodgers,  Stephen  Salisbury,  Theodore  (\  Bates 
Loring  (  oes,  A.  IJ.  H.  8])rague,  Josiah  Pickett,  E.  D.  Buffington.* 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-PAY. 


John  P.  Squire  &  Sons. 

One  of  the  representative  and  thoroughly  successful  business 
houses  of  Worcester  is  that  of  John  P.  Squire  &  Sons,  the  well- 
known  receivers  of  Western  dressed  beef,  and  John  P.  Squire  &  Co  's 
pork  products,  at  No.  199  Summer  street.  This  is  a  branch  of  the 
famous  Boston  house  of  the  same  name,  and  was  opened  here  in 
189o  by  the  present  manager,  Mr.  S.  L.  RIcker.  This  gentleman 
possesses  special  qualifications  for  carrying  on  the  business  upon  the 
highest  plane  of  efficiency,  bringing  to  bear,  as  he  does,  large  prac 


House  of  John  P.  Squire  &  Sons. 

tical  experience,  ample  capital  and  unequalled  facilities.     He   has 
manifested  marked  enterprise  and    sound    executive  judgment   in 
availing  himself  of  every  modern  improvement  tending  to  facilitate 
rapid  and  perfect  work.      He  occupies  three  spacious  floors  and  a 
basement,  provided  with  direct  railway  connections  and  every  con- 
venience  for  storing,  handling  and  supplying  meats  and  provisions- 
while   here   is   located   the   largest   and    finest   cold-storage    ware^ 
house  in  the  city,  which  is  liberally  patronized   by  our  citizens  for 
preserving  fruits  and  vegetables,  butter  and  eggs,  poultry  and  game, 
meats  and  fish  of  all  kinds.     The  meats  supplied  by  this  house  are 
justly  celebrated  for  excellence,  soundness,  care  and  skill  in  curing 
and  packing,  as  the  firm  use  only  the  best  stock  and  employ  the 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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latest  processes,  and  enjoy  the  highest  of  reputations  all  over  the 
country.  They  have  the  plans  and  specifications  completed  for  the 
erection  of  a  new  building,  which  will  be  83  feet  front  and  110  feet 
deep.  This  will  be  one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete  buildings 
of  its  kind  in  New  England  and  their  facilities  then  for  cold  storage, 
etc.,  will  be  unsurpassed. 


Bay  State  Stamping  Company. 

The  above  company  is  one  of  the  many  successful  enterprises  of 
Worcester.  The  business  was  established  a  few  years  ago,  and  under 
the  management  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Bennett,  one  of  Worcester's  mechanics 
and  inventors,  the  business  has  steadily  grown.  Owing  to  his  long 
and  varied  experience  in  the  stamping  business,  he  is  well  fitted  for 
the  specialty  of  the  firm,  which  consists  of  the  forming  of  sheet 
metals  into  a  great  variety  of  forms,  such  as  ferrules,  bicycle  parts, 
etc.  One  of  the  specialties  consists  in  the  Bennett  patent  tools  for 
truing  solid  emery  wheels,  either  in  a  lathe  or  while  running  at  full 
speed.  They  have  been  in  use  the  longest,  and  are  recommended 
the  highest  of  any  dressers  ever  placed  on  the  market. 


For  Turning  and  Sharpening  Solid  and  Covered  Emery 
Wheels  When  Running  at  Full  Speed. 

The  above  cut  represents  the  ''Bennett  Emery  Wheel  Dresser." 
The  advantage  of  this  tool  over  others  is  the  drawing  cut  pro- 
duced by  the  frame  seats  of  the  Dresser  holding  the  cutter  at  an 
angle  with  the  axis  of  the  wheel  to  be  dressed.  Thus  arranged,  it 
will  be  observed  that  the  contact  with  the  periphery  of  the  emery 
wheel  imparts  a  twisting  motion  to  each  grain  of  emery,  which  rolls 
it  from  its  matrix. 

Simplicity  of  construction  and  effectiveness  recommends  the  tool 
to  mechanics  at  once. 

It  leaves  sharp  corners,  and  puts  the  wheel  in  the  best  possible 
condition  for  use. 

That  the  firm's  productions  meet  the  wants  of  the  trade  is  shown 
by  the  steady  and  healthy  increase  of  trade  each  year. 

For  sale  by  hardware  dealers  and  emery  wheel  manufacturers. 
Manufactured  by  Bay  State  Stamping  Company,  17  Hermon  street. 


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John  P.  5t|uire  &  Sons. 

One  of  the  rep.vsentative  mu.I  tl.on.ugl.ly  successful  business 
houses  of  Worcester  is  that  of  John  I'.  .S,,uire  .V  Sons,  the  well- 
known  receivers  of  Western  .Iresse,!  beef,  an,l  John  P.  S.mireACo  's 
l-ork  ,,ro,lucfs,  at  Xo.  1!.!.  Snnuner  street.  This  is  a  branch  of  the 
famous  Loston  house  of  the  san.e  name,  and  was  oj.ene.l  here  in 
l.S9..by  the  present  manager.  Mr.  .s.  |..  Ri,ker.  This  gentlen.an 
possesses  special  ,|UaliHcati«„s  for  carrying  on  tl,e  business  upon  the 
highest  i.lane  of  efficiency,  bringing  to  bear,  as  he  .loes   huJe  prac 


House  of  John  P.  Squire  &  Sons. 

tical  experience.  ampUM..pi„l   an.l   une.,ualle.l    facilities,     lie    has 
manifested  marked  enterprise  am!    sound    executive   judgment    in 
availing  him.s.li  of  .v.ry  modern  improvement  tending  to  facilitate 
rapid  and  perfect  work.      lie  occupies   three  spacious   floors  an,l  a 
basement,  provide.l  with  .lirect  railway  connections  and  every  con- 
venience for  storing,  handling  and  supplying  meats  an.l  provisions- 
while   here   is   located   the    largest   and    linest   cold-storage    ware- 
house in  the  city,  which  is  liberally  patronized   by  our  c-itizens  for 
preserving  fruit.s  an.l  vegetables,  butter  an,l  egg.s,  poultry  and  game, 
meats  and  fish  of  all  kinds      The  meats  supplied  bv  this  house  are 
justly  ce  ebrated   for  excellence,  soundness,  care  and  skill  in  cuiing 
and  packing,  as  the  firm  use  only  the  best  stock  and  employ  the 


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latest  processes,  and  enjoy  the  highest  of  reputations  all  over  the 
country.  They  have  the  plans  and  specifications  completed  for  the 
erection  of  a  new  building,  which  will  be  83  feet  front  and  110  feet 
deep.  This  will  be  one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete  buildings 
of  its  kind  in  New  England  and  their  facilities  then  for  cold  storage, 
etc.,  will  be  unsurpassed. 


Bay  State  Stamping  Company. 

The  above  company  is  one  of  the  many  successful  enterprises  of 
Worcester.  The  business  was  established  a  few  years  ago,  and  under 
the  management  of  Mr.  J.  II.  IJennett,  one  of  Worcester's  mechanics 
and  inventors,  the  business  has  steadily  grown.  Owing  to  his  long 
and  varied  experience  in  the  stamping  business,  he  is  well  fitted  for 
the  specialty  of  the  firm,  which  consists  of  the  forming  of  sheet 
metals  into  a  great  variety  ot  forms,  such  as  ferrules,  bicycle  parts, 
etc.  One  of  the  specialties  consists  in  the  Bennett  patent  tools  for 
truing  solid  emery  wheels,  either  in  a  lathe  or  while  running  at  full 
speed.  They  have  been  in  use  the  longest,  and  are  recommended 
the  highest  of  any  dressers  ever  placed  on  the  market. 


For  Turning  and  Sharpening  Solid  and  Covered  Emery 
Wheels  When  Running  at  Full  Speed. 

The  above  cut  represents  the  "Bennett  Emery  Wheel  Dresser." 
The  advantage  of  this  tool  over  others  is  the  drawing  cut  pro- 
duced by  the  frame  seats  of  the  Dresser  holding  the  cutter  at  an 
angle  with  the  axis  of  the  wheel  to  be  dressed.  Thus  arranged,  it 
will  be  observed  that  the  contact  with  the  periphery  of  the  emery 
wheel  imparts  a  twisting  motion  to  each  grain  of  emery,  which  rolls 
it  from  its  matrix. 

Simplicity  of  construction  and  effectiveness  recommends  the  tool 
to  mechanics  at  once. 

It  leaves  sharp  corners,  and  puts  the  wheel  in  the  best  possible 
condition  for  use. 

That  the  firm's  productions  meet  the  wants  of  the  trade  is  shown 
by  the  steady  and  healthy  increase  of  trade  each  year. 

For  sale  by  hardware  dealers  and  emery  wheel  manufacturers. 
Manufactured  by  P>ay  State  Stamping  Company,  17  I lermon  street. 


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Worcester  Storage  Co. 

An  establishment  that  fills  an  exceedingly  useful  niche  in  the 
business  life  of  every  great  center  of  commercial  activity  isthe  storage 
warehouse,  where  merchandise  of  every  description  may  be  consigned 
and  stored,  pending  orders,  shipment  or  sale,  or  for  safe-keeping.  It 
is,  in  fact,  a  virtually  indispensable  feature  in  the  vast  and  complex 
business  system  that  prevails  in  our  large  cities.  This  concern 
devoted  to  this  sphere  of  usefulness  in  Worcester,  is  located  at  the 
corner  of  Pleasant  and  Clinton  streets ;  also  at  the  junction  of  Gold 


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Court  an.l  Bradley  streets.  The  company  was  organized  in  188'J 
with  ample  capital,  and  has  an  absolutely  fireproof  storage  warJ 
house,  the  only  wood  used  in  the  construction  being  the  woodwork 
in  the  office.  Here  are  offered  special  facilities  for  the  storage 
of  household  goods,  general  merchandise,  etc.,  in  separate  rooms 
with  fireproof  partitions.  Special  elevators  are  provided  which  take 
a  large  covered  van  to  any  of  the  six  floors,  and  an  elevator  lifting 
five  tons  makes  moving  cheap.  Prompt  attention  isgiven  to  moving 
and  packing  furniture  and  crockery  and  transporting  it  from  depots 
or  any  part  of  city.     A  large  number  of  careful  and  experienced 


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hands  contribute  to  the  satisfactory  operations  of  the  house.  The 
officers  of  the  Worcester  Storage  Company  are  as  follows,  viz :  Horace 
Wyman.  president ;  H.  Winfield  Wyman,  treasurer;  C.C.Brown, 
superintendent.  Mr.  H.  Winfield  Wyman  is  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Wyman  &  Gordon,  proprietors  of  the  Worcester  Drop 
Forging  Works,  and  all  the  officers  are  natives  of  Worcester  and 
hearty  supporters  of  every  movement  for  the  advancement  of  the  best 
interests  of  the  citv. 


Metropolitan  Storage  Co. 

This  company  ofl^er  exceptional  facilities  for  the  storage  of  furni- 
ture, works  of  art,  bric-a-brac,  pianos,  etc.,  having  .-JOO  separate 
rooms,  light,  clean  and  dry.  The  advantogcs  here  extended  are 
•inly  appreciated  by  our  citizens.     Tiie  warehouse  on  Barton   Place 


JOHN  W.  KNIBBS,  Propkikior. 


contains  7(.,000  s.,uare  feet  of  floor  space,  while  they  also  have  a 
large  storehouse  at  No.  10  Mason  street.     This  enterprise  was  inaug- 
urated here  in  1882,  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Dickie,  and  in  1898  Mr.  John  W 
Knibbs  became  the  proprietor,  with  Mr.  Dickie  as  manager. 


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Worcester  Storage  Co. 

An  establislnnent  tl.at  tills  an  excee<]ingly  useful  niche  in  the 
business  life  of  every  greatcenter  of  commercial  activityisthe  storage 
warehouse,  where  n.erclmn.lise  of  every  .lescription  nmy  be  consigne<l 
an.l  stored,  pen.ling  or.lers,  shii)nient  or  sale,  or  for  safe-keeping.  It 
is,  in  fact,  a  virtually  indispensable  feature  in  the  vast  and  con'plex 
business  system  tiuit  prevails  in  our  large  cities.  This  concern 
devoted  to  this  sphere  of  usefulness  in  Worcester,  is  located  at  the 
corner  of  Pleasant  and  Clinton  streets;  also  at  the  junction  of  (iold 


WORCESTeR    STORAGE    CO. 


<'"""t  an,l    Mradley  streets.     The  company  was  organized  in  ISS!. 

w,th  am,,k.  capital,  and  has  an  absolutely  fireproof  storage  ware^ 

lu.u.se,  the  only  wood  used  in  the  construction  being  the  woodwork 

in    the  office.     Here  are  oflered  special    facilities   for   the   storage 

of  househol.l  goods,  general   merchandise,  etc.,  in   separate  rooms 

with  fireproof  partitions.     Special  elevators  are  provided  which  take 

a  large  covered  van  to  any  of  the  six  floors,  and   an  elevator  lifting 

five  tons  makes  nioving  cheap.     Prompt  attention  isgiven  to  moving 

an.l  packing  furniture  and  crockery  and  transporting  it  from  dej^ts 

or  any  j.art  of  city.     A  large  number  of  careful  and   exj.erienced 


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liands  contribute  t..  the  .satisfactory  operations  of  the  iiou.se.  The 
oHicersof  the  Worce.-ter  Storage  Company  areas  follow.s,  viz:  Horace 
Wyman.  president ;  H.  Winfield  Wyman.  treasurer;  C.  C.  Brown, 
superintendent.  .Mr.  II.  Winfield  Wyman  is  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Wyman  .t  (ionlon,  proprietors  of  the  Worcester  Drop 
Forging  Works,  an.l  all  the  officers  are  natives  of  Worcester  an.l 
hearty  supporters  of  every  movement  for  the  advancement  of  the  best 
interests  of  the  citv. 


Metropolitan  Storage  Co. 

This  company  offer  exceptional  facilities  for  the  storage  of  furni- 
ture, works  of  art,  biic-a-brac,  pianos,  etc.,  having  :!(»()  .separate 
room.s,  light,  clean  an.l  .Iry.  The  advantages  here  extended  are 
<luly  api.reciated  by  our  citizens.     The  wareliouse  on   J5art..n    Place 


JOHN  W.   KMHH.S.   Pkoi.kiktor. 


contains  7(..(K)0  s,,uare  feet  .,f  floor  space,  while  they  als..  have  a 
large  storehou.se  at  Xo.  K.  Mason  street.     This  enterprise  was  inaug- 
urated here  in  1,S,S2,  by  Mr.  ./.  11.  Dickie,  an.l  in  1898  .Mr.  .John  W 
Kmbbs  became  the  proprietor,  with  Mr.  Dickie  as  manager. 


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Hill  Dryer  Company. 

A  prominent  and  i)rosi)erous  industry  in  Worcester  is  that  conducted 
by  the  Hill  Dryer  Company,  on  Park  avenue.  This  company  are 
manufacturers  of  the  famous -Hill  Balcony  and  Champion  Clothes 
Dryer,"  also  the  Universal  Rotarv  Ash  Sifter,  the  Glacier  Refrigera- 
tor, the  "Hustler"  Ash  Sifter,  which  "by  the  way,"  was  on  exhibition 
at  the  Mechanics'  Fair,  Boston,  which  closed  December  :^d,  where  it 
was  admired  by  thousands;  large  numbers  of  the  sifter  were  sold 
during  the  Fair,  and  orders  are  received  by  nearly  every  mail  from 
parties  who  saw  them  in  operation  there;  Hill's  folding  wash  benches, 
tolding  ironing  tables,  folding  pantry  steps,  clothes  horses,  step  lad- 


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ders,  meat  boards,  and  kindred  specialities.  The  business  was  estab- 
lished here  in  1S7(>,  by  Mr.  Joseph  P.  Hill,  and  in  1889  he  builtthe 
present  works,  which  comprise  a  four-story  brick  building,  100x50 
feet,  with  a  storehouse  about  the  same  size  in  the  rear,  and  splendidly 
equipped  with  every  modern  facility  for  insuring  rapid  and  perfect 
production.  The  output  is  one  of  great  variety  and  value,  and  the 
goods  are  superior  in  utility  and  efficiency  to  any  similar  articles  yet 
invented.  They  are  in  great  and  growing  demand  all  over  the  coun- 
try, and  the  business  is  thus  in  a  thoroughly  healthy  and  flourishing 
condition.  Mr.  Hill  is  a  native  of  Vermont,  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  and  was  the  inventor  of  the  first  balcony  dryer  and  the  first 
wooden  one.  He  introduced  the  ''Hustler"  Ash  Sifter  in  1898,  and 
is  widely  honored  and  esteemed  for  his  inventive  genius,  sterling 
enterprise  and  thorough  reliability. 


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P.  E.  Ordway. 

Worcester  is  known  all  over  the  land  as  one  of  the  most  enter- 
prising and  prosperous  cities  in  the  Union.     Progressive  business 
management  permeates  the  entire  community.  This  largely  accounts 
for  the  evidences  of  thrift  and  prosperity  to  be  found  on  every  hand 
One  of  Its  representative  enterj.rises  is  that  conducted  by  Mr  P  E 
Ordway,  as  a  manufacturer  of  billiard  and  pool  tables,  at  No  47 
Main  street      This  gentleman  established  his  industry  in  this  city 
in  1885,  and  being  thoroughly  practical  and  endowed  with  a  genius 
for  invent lou  and  an  ambition  to  excel,  he  has  devoted  him.self  with 
ardor  to  the  production  of  a  class  of  tables  which  should  not  onlv 
vie  in  excellence  with  any  made,  but  should,  when  once  introduced 
and  tested,  be  preferred  by  the  expert  user  to  all  other  makes      To 
that  end  he  has  introduced  his  steel  edge  cushions,  which  have  won 
the  admiration  and  praise  of  leading  billiardists  throughout  the 
country,  and  the  superiority  he  has  attained  in   both  billiard  and 
pool  tables  is  such  as  to  have  created  a  permanent  and  constantly 
increasing   demand    throughout  New  England.     Mr.   Ordway   has 
furnished  the  Bay  State  House  tables  with  his  improved  cushions 
and  nearly  all  the  large  billiard  and  pool  rooms  are  fitted  out  from 
his   establishment.     He  also  manufactures   and    supplies   bowling 
alleys   and    furnishings  of  every  description.     Among  the   places 
which  Mr  Ordway  has  supplied  with  his  tables  might  be  mentioned 
the  Schafner  Club,  Lakeside  Boat  Club,  Washington  Social  Club 
the  Casino  Club,  the  Lincoln  House,  Hotel   Russell  (Springfield)' 
Hotels  Brunswick   and  Commonwealth,  Winthrop  Billiard  Parlors 
Massasoit  Billiard  and  Bowling  Parlors,  A.  T.  Smith's  Billiard  and 
Bowling  Parlors,  private  residences  of  Mr.  James  Logan  Dr  J  C 
Tassee,  Mr.  W.  h.  Burns,  Mr.   Edwin  Brown,  Dr.  William  Lord 
bmith,  Mr.  Chetwood  Smith  and  Mr.  James  E.  Orr.     Space  forbids 
enumerating  the  many  spacious  halls  and  private  residences  through- 
out New  England  fitted  by  up  this  establishment,  the  above  being 
simply  local  patrons  equipped  by  this  gentleman.     Mr.  Ordway  is 
a  native  of  Worcester,  and  has  by  his  close  application  to  business 
and  strict  integrity  built  up  a  business  that  Worcester  may  justlv 
feel  proud  of.     An  inspection  of  his  show  rooms  will  convince  the 
most  exacting  that  no  better  goods  can  be  found  outside  the  city 
than  is  seen  in  his  well-appointed  establishment. 


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Prentice  Brothers  Co. 

It  is  but  due  and  fitting  to  state,  apropos  of  the  remarkable  ad- 
vancement  made  in  placing  Worcester  foremost  among  the  manu- 
facturing  centers   of  our  country,  that   much    of  what   has   been 
accomplished  is  due  to  Prentice  Brothers  Company,  manufacturers 
of  machine  tools.     There  is  nothing  flamboyant  about  this  concern, 
who  prefer  to  demonstrate  by  deeds,  facts  and  figures  rather  than 
words,  what  can  be  accomplished  by  directing  their  efforts  towards 
a  certain  end.     This  concern  was   inaugurated    here  in   1872,  by 
Messrs.  Vernon  F.  and  Albert  F.   Prentice,  as  Prentice  Brothers, 
occupying  in  a  modest  way  less  than  200  square  feet  in  their  estab- 
lishment, while  their  force  consisted  of  but  three  to  five  mechanics. 


PRBNXrCE     BROS.     COTWTPKNY. 

From  the  start  the  goods  of  this  company  met  with  a  most  favorable 
reception,  while  merchants  and  skilled  mechanics  soon  found  this 
young  but  enterprising  firm  well  qualified  to  give  thorough  satis- 
faction and  to  promptly  and  efficiently  fill  all  contracts  intrusted  to 
tliem.  Their  rapid  growth  was  due  entirely  to  the  indomitable 
policy  of  the  concern  to  excel  in  their  product  and  how  signally 
they  have  succeeded  may  be  seen  by  the  accompanying  reproduc- 
tion of  their  factory.  In  September,  1898,  the  present  Company 
was  incorporated.     They  utilize  75,000  square  feet  in  their  factory 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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covering  about  two  acres,  while  giving  employment  constantly  to 
270  mechanics. 

This  house  has  achieved  the  greatest  success  in  the  invention  and 
manufacture  of  lathes  and  drill  presses.    It  will  be  readily  admitted 
that  the  genius  of  the  inventor  and  the  skill  of  the  mechanician 
have  had  great  obstacles  to  contend  with  in  the  manufacture  of 
machinery  and  tools  for  accomplishing  the  work  originally  performed 
by  the  slow  and  tedious  process  of  hand  labor.     This  conviction  will 
be  greatly  strengthened  by  a  visit  to  the  works  of  this  Company  or 
to  any  of  the  shops  where  the  products  of  the  Company  are  in  use; 
for  while  in  the  former  they  will  be  struck  with  the  wonderful  means 
used  to  remove  all  mechanical  difficulties,  in  the  latter  they  will  be 
still  more  astonished  by  the  inconceivable  rapidity  and  mathemat- 
ical accuracy  resulting  from  the  use  of  these  machines.     This  Com- 
pany make  vertical  drills  from  thirteen  to  fifty-inch  swing,  sensitive 
drills,   vertical    pump   boring   machines,    suspension    drills,  radial 
drills  from  forty-eight  to  one  hundred  and  twenty  inches,  universal 
radial  drills,  boiler  wall  drills,  bridge  drills,  radial  countersinking 
and  drilling  machines  with  fifteen-foot  arm  for  ship  plate  and  bridge 
work;  also,  engine  lathes,  from  twelve  to  twenty-four  inch  swing; 
stud  and  bolt  lathes,  standard  tool  room  lathes,  etc. 

They  were  awarded  first  prize  upon  their  exhibit  in  Philadelphia 
in  1876,  first  prize  at  the  Brussels  Exposition,  while  they  also  carried 
off  first  prize  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  1893.  The 
Company  has  secured  space  at  the  Paris  Exposition  where  will  be 
exhibited  their  wares,  which,  by  the. way,  will  be  taken  from  their 
general  stock  and  will  not  be  manufactured  for  special  exhibition 
purposes. 

Their  representatives  are  constantly  making  pilgrimages  in  the 
foreign  countries  and  their  export  trade  has  reached  enormous  pro- 
portions. It  might  be  of  general  interest  to  our  readers  to  know 
that  Worcester  figured  conspicuously  in  furnishing  material  with 
which  our  navy  coped  with  that  of  Spain  during  the  recent  un- 


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Prentice  Brothers  Co. 

It  is  but  due  and  fitting  to  state,  apropos  of  the  remarkable  ad- 
vancement made  in  placing   Worcester  foremost  among  the  manu- 
facturing  centers   of  our  country,   that    much    of  what    has    been 
accomplished  is  due  to  Prentice   Brothers  Company,   manufacturers 
of  machine  tools.     There  is  nothing  flamboyant  about  this  concern, 
who  prefer  to  demonstrate  by  deeds,  facts  and   figures  rather  than 
words,  what  can  be  accomplished  by  directing  their  efforts  towards 
a  certain  end.     This  concern   was    inaugurated    here  in    1S72,  by 
Messrs.    X'ernon   F.  and  Albert   F.    Prentice,  as   Prentice  Brothers, 
occupying  in  a  modest  way  less  than  '200  square  feet  in  their  estab- 
lishment,  while  their  force  con.^isted  of  but  three  to  five  mechanics. 


From  the  start  the  goods  of  this  con.pany  met  with  a  most  favorable 
reception,  while  merchants  and  skilled  mechanics  soon  found  this 
young  but  enterprising  firm  well  ^ualiHed  to  give  thorough  satis- 
faction  and  to  i>romptly  and  efficiently  fill  all  contracts  intrusted  to 
them.  Their  rapid  growth  was  due  entirely  to  the  indomitable 
policy  of  the  concern  to  excel  in  their  product  and  how  signally 
they  have  succeeded  may  be  seen  by  ti)e  accompanying  reproduc- 
tion of  their  factory.  In  September,  ISOS,  the  present  Company 
was  incorporated.     They  utilize  7r.,000  square  feet  in  their  factory 


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covering  about  two  acres,  while  giving  employment  constantly  to 
270  mechanics. 

This  house  has  achieved  the  greatest  success  in  the  invention  and 
manufacture  of  latlies  and  drill  presses.    It  will  be  readily  admitted 
that  the  genius  of  the  inventor  and   the  skill  of  the  mechanician 
have  had  great  obstacles  to  contend   with  in  the  manufacture  of 
machinery  and  tools  for  accomplishing  the  work  originally  performed 
by  the  slow  and  tedious  process  of  hand  labor.     This  conviction  will 
be  greatly  strengthened  by  a  visit  to  the  works  of  this  Company  or 
to  any  of  the  shops  where  the  products  of  the  Company  are  in  use; 
for  while  in  the  former  they  will  be  struck  with  the  wonderful  means 
used  to  remove  all  mechanical  difficulties,  in  the  latter  they  will  be 
still  more  astonished  by  the  inconceivable  rapidity  and  mathemat- 
ical  accuracy  resulting  from  the  use  of  these  machines.     This  Com- 
pany make  vertical  drills  from  thirteen  to  fifty-inch  swing,  sensitive 
drills,   vertical    pump    boring    machines,    suspension    drills,   radial 
drills  from  forty-eight  to  one  hundred  and  twenty  inches,  universal 
radial  drills,  boiler  wall  drills,  bridge  drills,  radial  countersinking 
and  drilling  machines  with  fifteen-foot  arm  for  ship  plate  and  bridge 
work;  also,  engine  lathes,  from  twelve  to  twenty-four  inch  swing; 
stud  and  bolt  lathes,  standaid  tool  room  lathes,  etc. 

They  were  awarded  first  prize  upon  their  exhibit  in  Philadelphia 
in  187G,  first  prize  at  the  Brussels  Exposition,  while  they  also  carried 
ott*  first  prize  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  1893.  The 
Company  has  secured  space  at  the  Paris  Exposition  where  will  be 
exhibited  their  wares,  which,  by  the. way,  will  be  taken  from  their 
general  stock  and  will  not  be  manufactured  for  special  exhibition 
purposes. 

Their  representatives  are  constantly  making  pilgrimages  in  the 
foreign  countries  and  their  export  trade  has  reached  enormous  pro- 
portions. It  might  be  of  general  interest  to  our  readers  to  know 
that  Worcester  figured  conspicuously  in  furnishing  material  with 
which  our  navy  coped  with  that  of  Spain  during  the  recent  un- 


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pleasantness  for  the  Prentice  machinery  was  generally  distributed 
throughout  the  United  States  Navy  and  the  various  navy  yards, 
while  the  main  repair  ship  Vulcan  was  largely  equipped  from  this 
establishment.  Particular  attention  has  always  been  paid  by  this 
Company  to  the  sanitary  condition  of  their  establishment,  while  in 
justice  to  the  management  it  must  be  said  that  the  treatment 
accorded  their  employes  has  won  for  them  a  feeling  of  deep  grati- 
tude, and  their  fair  dealings  and  consideration  for  the  wants  and 
comforts  of  their  operatives  has  resulted  in  a  feeling  of  mutual  con- 
tentment. No  strikes,  no  accidents  and  no  trouble  has  ever  occurred 
to  mar  the  record  of  this  enterprising  industry  who  consider  that 
what  is  an  injury  to  one  is  the  concern  of  all,  and  acting  upon  this 
theory  organized  labor,  alive  to  its  own  interests,  should  not  be  in- 
sensible to  the  benefits  thus  gained  from  such  fair  minded  and  con- 
siderate enterprises,  but  when  an  occasion  arises,  study  well  the 
Prentice  tools  and  bear  in  mind  that  they  are  strictly  union  made. 


Woodbury  &  Company. 

This  firm  and  their  predecessors,  Keyes  and  Woodbury,  have  been 
established  in  this  city  for  twenty  years.  They  have  done  work  for 
many  of  the  largest  concerns  east  of  the  Mississippi  river.  Their 
specialty  in  the  drawing  of  bird's  eye  views  of  factories  has  won 
them  a  national  reputation.  Their  imprint  can  be  found  on  nearly 
all  the  framed  views  of  factories,  either  in  color  or  black  and  white. 
They  are  also  experts  in  preparing  drawings  or  photographs  for  half 
tones  for  general  advertising  purposes.  They  have  the  reputation 
of  producing  half  tones  and  wood  cuts  of  unusual  brightness  and 
accuracy.  A  special  feature  adopted  by  this  concern  is  that  of 
sending  a  representative  to  personally  sketch  from  actual  appearance 
the  buildings  or  machinery  to  be  illustrated.  The  firm  has  lately 
secured  Mr.  A.  G.  Wesson  as  manager  of  their  engraving  depart- 
ment with  an  office  in  the  Day  building,  306  Main  street,  the  office 
on  Park  avenue  being  used  principally  for  the  drawing  and  artists' 
work. 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 
Louis  Plack,  Jr. 


The  enterprise  and  culture  of  a  people  is  shown  in  the  character  of 
the  buildings  they  erect,  and  nothing  produces  a  deeper  or  more  last- 
ing impression  on  a  stranger.     If  there  can  be  seen  on  every  hand 
handsome  structures  possessing  both  solidity  and  architectural  beauty, 
it  is  safe  to  infer  that  the  people  are  progressive,  and  have  both  taste 
and  good  judgment.    Worcester  has  long  since  attained  front  rank  as 
an  industrial  and  commercial  center,  and  its  buildings  will  compare 
favorably  with  those  of  any  city  in  the  world.     For  this  laudable  state 
of  affairs  great  credit  is  due  to  our  leading  architects,  and  prominent 
among  the  number  stands  Mr.  Louis  Plack,  Jr.,  who  occupies  com- 
modious  quarters  in  the  Day  building.     This  gentleman  has  been 
identified  with  the  architectural  profession  for  many  years,  first  in 
Pennsylvania,  then  for  ten  years  in  Boston,  subsequently  opening  his 
office  in  this  city  in  February,  1898.     Having  been  educated  in  his 
chosen  profession  at  the  best  schools  in  this  country  and  abroad,  amply 
qualifies  him  to  successfully  cater  to  thetastesof  the  most  fastidious. 
That  his  ability  has  been  fully  appreciated  is  attested  to  by  a  steadily 
increased  patronage.     He  is  prepared  to  undertake  thedesigning  and 
erection  of  churches,  schoolhouses,  business  blocks,  public  buildings 
and  private  residences,  conscientiously  discharging  his  duties  to  all 
with  whom  he  has  professional  and  business  relations,  and  whoseskill 
and  capacity,  coupled  with  his  honorable  record,  render  him  deserv- 
edly popular  and  respected  in  the  business  and  social  world. 


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Qeors:e  Boepple. 

The  demands  of  the  people  of  Worcester  and  vicinity,  mostly  in 
prosperous  circumstances  or  earning  liberal  wages,  are  varied  and  of 
surprising  extent.  Hence  we  find  the  city  stores  and  markets  well 
stocked  and  doing  a  large  business.  Both  the  wholesale  and  retail 
establishments  are  celebrated  for  the  extent  and  quality  of  their 
stock,  and  a  very  highly  appreciated  element  in  the  display  are  the 
goods  so  skillfully,  cleanly  and  daintily  made  by  Mr.  George  Boepple 
the  well-known  manufacturer  of  and  dealer  in  all  kinds  of  sausages' 
cooked  ham  and  corned  beef,  beef,  lamb  and  pigs'  tongues,  pigs'  feet,' 
etc.;  imported  Swiss,  cream  and  limburger  cheese,  Holland  herrings'. 


GEORGK  BOHPHI^H.   Propriktor. 

etc,  at  No.  30  Mulberry  street.  This  business  has  been  in  successful 
operation  since  1891,  and  is  conducted  at  both  wholesale  and  retail. 
Ail  the  stock  handled  is  selected  for  soundness  and  tenderness,  noth- 
ing but  the  choicest  meats  enter  into  the  sausages  manufactured, 
which  are  staples  on  the  tables  of  all  the  leading  hotels  and  restau- 
rants of  the  city,  and  their  increasing  sales  here  and  elsewhere  afford 
ample  evidence  of  their  superiority.  These  specialties  are  pro- 
nounced by  experts  to  be  the  finest  in  the  market,  and  the  trade  and 
public  thoroughly  appreciate  their  merits.  Mr.  Boepple  came  from 
Gernaany  m  1879  and  settled  in  Worcester  in  1888.  He  is  known 
as  a  leading  authority  in  his  line,  and  noted  for  his  equitable  and 
honorable  methods. 


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Bay  State  House. 

For  thirty-five  years  the  Bay  State  House,  of  Worcester,  has  proved 
a  magnet  to  the  best  people  in  the  land,  and  has  never  been  called 
upon  to  compete  with  other  hostelries  as  it  has  always  had  a  select 
and  extensive  line  of  custom  from  those  classes  who,  possessed  of 
wealth  and  refinement,  instinctively  seek  out  the  best  of  everything. 
The  Bay  State  is  not  patronized  solely  by  people  of  wealth,  but  by 
persons  of  culture  and  refinement,  and  every  one  is  treated  with  the 
same  consideration.     Mr.  Frank  P.  Douglass,  the  proprietor,  has  been 
at  the  head  of  the  house  since  1888,  and  has  recently  spent  many 
thousands  of  dollars  in  modern  furnishings  and  repairs,  and  hasput 
the  house  in  thorough  condition.     He  has  added  a  new  cafe  for  ladies 
and  gentlemen,  which  is  one  of  the  daintiest  and  best  appointed  in 
the  State.     No  expense  has  been  spared  in  decorations  or  furnishings. 
Entrance  is  made  from  Exchange  street,  directly  off  the  ladies'  en- 
trance, and  ladies  without  escorts  will  find  it  most  convenient.     The 
service  is  equal  to  any  metropolitan  hotel  or  cafe,  and  a  gentleman's 
cafe  and  chop  room  has  been  opened  in  rooms  directly  beneath,where 
the  same  superior  service  is  given.     The  names  of  guests  that  are 
renewed  on  the  registers  of  the  Bay  State  as  year  follows  year,include 
those  of  Senator  Hoar,  Senator  Lodge,  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  Adelina 
Patti,  Sara  Bernhardt,  Joseph  Jefferson,  Emma  Calve,  Governor Wol- 
cott,  Grover  Cleveland,  General  Miles,  John  D.  Long,  Henry  M. 
Stanley,  Lieutenant  Peary,  Dr.  Nansen,  W.  F.  Cody,  Vanderbilts, 
Jays,  Belmonts,  Bert  Harrison,  James  G.  Blaine,  Thomas   B.  Reed,' 
and  many  more  equally  as  prominent.     The  location  of  the  Bay  State| 
at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Exchange  streets,  may  be  aptly  termed  a 
pivotal  point  in  the  city,  being  convenient  alike  to  railways,  theaters, 
halls  and  clubs;  directly  central  to  the  best  stores  and  leading  banks, 
while  the  pavement  is  on  the  line  of  Worcester's  most  fashionable  shop^ 
ping  promenade.    Pages  could  be  written  in  praise  of  the  managerial 
conduct  of  the  Bay  State,  but  we  trust  in  this  necessarily  condensed 
sketch  we  have  conveyed  to  the  minds  of  our  readers  that  right  here 


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is  a  hotel  that  will  compare  favorably,  from  every  point  of  view,  with 
any  other  on  the  continent.  Mr.  Douglass  is  a  native  of  Lynn,  Mass., 
and  began  hotel  life  as  a  boy  in  the  old  Union  House,  at  Littleton, 
N.  H.  He  was  afterwards  connected  with  the  Profile  House,  White 
Mountains,  and  the  United  States  Hotel  in  Boston,  and  in  1875  be- 
came chief  clerk  at  the  Bay  State  House,  remaining  in  that  capacity 
until  he  became  proprietor.  He  is  an  accomplished  and  popular  host 
and  has  made  the  Bay  State  House  famous  the  whole  world  over. 


Worcester  Coal  Co. 

This  company  deals  in  first-class  coals  only.  Its  twenty-five  or 
more  years  of  experience  has  mnde  it  an  excellent  judge  of  the  best 
and  most  economical  coals  mined,  and  its  endeavor  is  to  place  before 
the  public  such  fuel  as  will  give  the  best  results  for  the  money  ex- 
pended. Its  Susquehanna  Coal  for  general  domestic  use  is  unexcelled. 
While  not  strictly  speaking  a  free-burning  coal,  it  is  soft  enough  for 
any  ordinary  draft,  and  at  the  same  time  has  a  heating  and  lasting 
power  which  is  not  excelled  except  in  Lehigh  Coals.  For  a  harder 
coal  for  domestic  use  only,  Jeddo  and  Lattimer  coals  are  carried. 
These  are  the  hardest  and  strongest  coals  mined. 

For  Bituminous,  American  Co.'s  George's  Creek  Cumberland,  from 
their  Jackson  Mine, and  theBerwind-WhiteCoal  Mining  Co.'s  Eureka 
Clearfield  are  carried  in  stock.  The  first-named  is  unexcelled  for 
steam  and  blacksmith  use,  and  the  latter  is  a  most  excellent  steam 
producer. 

For  foundry  use  in  melting,  Connellsville  Coke  has  niDw  almost 
superceded  coal,  and  this  company  carries  in  stock  a  superior  quality 
of  this  now  famous  fuel. 

The  company  was  organized  in  February,  1880,  with  Ward  J. 
Parks  treasurer  and  (Jeorge  H.  Miller  sales  agent.  Its  oflBce  is  now 
at  536  Main  street,  with  yards  at  397  Southbridge  street  and  35  Man- 
chester street. 


WORCESTER  COAL  CO., 

536  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Yards:    397  South  Bridge  St.,  Cor.  Ham- 
mond, 35  Manchester  Street. 


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DOMESTIC,  STEAM  and  FOUNDRY  USE. 


Susquehanna  White  Ash,  Uureka  Clearfield, 

Lattimer  and  Jeddo  Lehigh,  Lyken's  Valley  Franklin, 

American  Co*s.  Cumberland,         Connellsville  Coke. 


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Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company. 

Worcester  is  a  recognized  center  of  industry,   and  the  Worcester 
public  a  recognized  medium  of  introduction  for  reliable  manufac- 
tures to  the  buyers  of  the  world.    The  successful  career  of  Clemence 
&  Searles,  manfacturers  of  Builders'  Finish,  fine  Cabinet  Work,  etc., 
illustrated  the  truth  of  these  statements.      Organized  in  3894,  the 
concern  has  become  widely  and  favorably  known  throughout  New 
England  not  alone  for  the  excellence  of  its  manufactures,  but  for  its 
progressive  business  methods  and  honorable  dealing.  Since  its  organ- 
ization  It  has  built  up  a  large  business  among  the  best  builder^^  and 
the  buildings  which  have  been  furnished  wholly  or  inpart  with  their 
material,  include  some  of  the  finest  residences,  public  buildings  and 
business  blocks  which  have  been  erected,   prominent  among  which 
may  be  mentioned  the  new  passenger  and  office  buildings  of  the  New 
York,  New  Haven  and  Hartford  R.  R.  Co.,  in  Providence,  R.  I.- 
State   Normal   School   Building,    Fitchburg,    Mass.;  Melrose   High 
School  Building,  Melrose,  Mass.;  Cambridge  Savings  Bank  Building 
Cambridge,    Mass.;    Emmanuel   Church,    Newbury   street,    Boston' 
Mass,  residence  of  William  H.  Inman,  Worcester,  Mass.;  residence 
of  Edwin  H.  Baker,  East  Greenwich,  Conn.     The  firm  has  recently 
consolidated  itself  with  the  Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company  and 
combined  the  manufacture  of  the  Flexifold  Specialties  with  the  man- 
ufacture of  Builders'  Finish,  heretofore  carried  on  by  the  firm    The 
business  is  now  known  as  the  Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company 
with  J.  Henry  Searles  as  president,  and  Charles  R.  Clemence  as 
treasurer  and   general    manager.     They  have   acquired   the   lar^e 
mill  formerly  occupied  by  the  Ruddy  Thread  Company,  in  addi- 
tion to  their  former  factory,  and  with  increased  facilities  will  be 
better  prepared  than  ever  to  handle  their  large  and  increasing  busi- 
ness.    The  main  office  and  factory  are  located  at  70  to  86  Central 
street,  Worcester,  and  comprise  40,000  feet  of  floor  space,  with  amr,le 
drying  facilities  and  yard  room  and  complete  equipment  of  latest 
machinery.     When  in  full  operation  their  factory  furnishes  employ- 
ment for  over  100  men.      The  Flexible  doors  and  other  kindred 
specialties  manufactured  by  the  company  find  a  market  not  only 
hroughout  the  United  States,  but  in  foreign  countries  as  well    and 
their  use  is  being  adopted  by  the  leading  architects  throughout  the 
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Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company. 

W^orcester  is  a  recognized   center  of  industry,   and  tlie  Worcester 
public  a  recognized  medium   of  introduction  for  reliable  manufac- 
tures to  the  buyers  of  the  world.    The  successful  career  of  Clemence 
it  Searles,  manfacturers  of  Builders'  Finish,  fine  Cabinet  Work,  etc., 
illustrated   the  truth  of  these  statements.      Organized  in  1894,  the 
concern  has  become  widely  and  favorably  known  throughout  New 
England  not  alone  for  the  excellence  of  its  manufactures,  but  for  its 
progressive  business  methods  and  honorable  dealing.  Since  its  organ- 
i/ation  It  has  built  up  a  large  business  among  the  best  builder.^  and 
the  buildings  which  have  been  furnished  wholly  or  in  part  with 'their 
material,  include  some  of  the  finest  residences,  public  buildings  and 
business  blocks  which  have  been  erected,   prominent  among  which 
may  be  mentioned  the  new  passenger  and  office  buildings  of  the  New 
York,  New  Haven  and  Hartford  R.   R.  Co.,  in  Providence,  R   I  ■ 
State    Normal    School    Building,    Fitchburg.    Mass.;  Melrose   Higli 
School  Building,  Melrose,  Mass.;  Cambridge  Savings  Bank  Building 
Cambridge,    Mass.;    Fmmanuel   Church,    Newbury   street,    Boston' 
Mass^;  residence  of  William  H.  Inman,  Worcester,  Mass.;  residence 
of  Kdw.n  H.  Baker,  Fast  (Jreenwich,  Conn.     The  firm  has  recently 
consolidated  itself  with  the  Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company  and 
combined  the  manufacture  of  the  Flexifold  Specialties  with  the  man- 
ufacture of  Builders'  Finish,  heretofore  carried  on  by  the  firm    The 
business  is  now  known  as  the  Flexible  Door  and  Shutter  Company 
with  J.  Henry  Searles  as  president,  and   Charles  R.  Clemence  as 
treasurer  and   general    manager.     They  have   acquired    the   large 
null  formerly  occupied  by  the  Ruddy  Thread  Company,  in  addi- 
tion to  their  former  factory,  and  with  increased  facilities  will  be 
better  prepared  than  ever  to  handle  their  large  and  increasing  busi- 
ness.     The  main  office  and   factory  are  located  at  70  to  86  Central 
street,  Worcester,  and  comprise  40,000  feet  of  floor  space,  with  ample 
drying  facilities  and  yard  room  and  complete  equipment  of  latest 
machinery.     When  in  full  operation  their  factory  furnishes  employ- 
ment or  over   100  men.      The  Flexible  doors  and  other  kindred 
specialties  manufactured  by   the  company   find  a  market  not  only 
throughout  the  United  States,  but  in  foreign  countries  as  well    and 
their  use  is  being  adopted  by  the  leading  architects  throughout  the 
country. 


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(Successors  to  Clemence  St  Searles), 


PATENTEES  AND  MANUFACTURERS 

Plexifold  Specialties. 


Builders'  Finish 


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FINE  CABINET  WORK. 


Shut-Off  in  Hallway. 


J.  HENRY  SEARLES. 
President. 

CHAS.  R.  CLEMENCE, 

Treasurer 

and  Qen.  Nlgr. 


Office 
and  Factory, 

72  to  86 

Central  Street, 

Worcester. 

Branch  Office. 

74  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York. 


Flexifold  Partitions  .siil>-dividing  large  Areas, 
without  MuUions. 


Flexifold  Coiling  Partitions, 
Flexifold  Sliding  Doors, 

Flexifold  Paneled  Partitions, 

Horizontal  Rolling  Partitions, 
Self-Coiling  Window  Shutters. 

Hygienic  School  Wardrobes, 
Office  Wardrobes,  Saving  Space, 
Office  Cabinets,  Cases  and  Files, 

Fireproof  Doors,  Partitions  and  Shutters, 
Flexifold  Applied  to  Street  Cars. 


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You  and  your  friends  are  cordially  invited  to  view  the  exhibition 
of  Braun,  Clements'  Carbon  Photographs,  direct  from  the  original 
paintings  by  the  old  and  modern  masters.  This  collection  embraces 
some  of  the  most  notable  pictures  and  are  absolutely  permanent. 

We  also  offer  a  large  line  of  pictures  of  the  Boston  Museum  of  Fine 
Arts  Collection,  the  Boston  Public  Library  and  a  large  number  of 
pictures  from  private  collections. 

We  carry  a  choice  line  of  Mouldings  suitable  for  framing  any  of 
these  pictures.  Very  truly  yours, 

U.  S.  BOUTELLE  CO., 

256  Main  street. 


FLEXIBLE  DOOR  &  SHUTTER  CO., 


Successors  to  Clemence  Sc  Searles  , 


PATENTEES  AND  MANUI-ACTURERS 

Flexifold  Specialties. 


Builders'  Finish 


And 


FINE  CABINET  WORK. 


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J.  HENKY  SEARLES,    [Alf^>^^^^ 

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President. 

CHAS.  R.  CLEMENCE. 

Treasurer  ■> 

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Office 
and  Factory. 

72  to  86 
-  Central  Street, 
Worcester. 

-^  Branch  Office, 

74  llfth   Avenue, 
New  York. 


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Flexifold  Coilinj^  Partitions, 
Flexifold  Sliding  Doors, 

Flexifold  Paneled  Partitions, 

Horizontal  Rolling  Partitions, 
Self-Coilinjc  Window  Shutters. 

Hygienic  School  Wardrobes, 
Office  Wardrobes,  Saving  Space, 
Office  Cabinets,  Cases  and  Files, 

Firepro:  f  Doors,  Partitions  and  Shutters, 
Flexifold  Applied  to  Street  Cars. 


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"AT     THE     CL.OSE     OF^     DKY. 


V«.n  and  your  friends  are  cordially  invited  to  view  the  exhibition 
of  iJraun,  ChMnent.s' (  arhon  rhot(><rra|di.'^.  direct  IVoni  the  oriuinal 
l»ainting.s  by  tlie  old  and  modern  nia.sters.  Thi.^  collection  enihrace.s 
some  of  the  most  notable  pictures  and  are  absolutely  i^ermanent. 

We  also  otter  a  laro^e  line  of  pictures  of  the  IJoston  Museum  of  Fine 
ArtsCclkvtion,  the  iioston  Public  Library  and  a  large  number  of 
pictures  from  private  collections. 

We  cany  a  choice  line  of  Mouldings  suitable  for  IVamino  anv  of 
these  picture.s.  Vd-v  trulv  vours, 

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'I^yi')  Main  street. 


NA^ARE,  PRATT  CO.. 

RELIABLE  CLOTHIERS  AND  OUTFITTERS. 

OUR  CL.KI7«.     .     .     . 

PRIc'es"""'   ^^^^  QUALITY    MERCHANDISE   at   MODERATE 
OUR  SPECIALTY.     .     .     . 

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from  SB  ooT«  iiK  ^S  ^r^'    ^"   '"soectlon  of  what  we  offer 

STXTlMENTsfndf.?eMPBir^i"°*  ^°"   of  the  TRUTH  of  our 
^  1  «  I  cmnNTb  and  the  MERIT  of  our  MERCHANDISE. 


IN  OUR  OTHER   nERKRTTWtEIMTS. 
HKTS.  PURNISHINCS  HMD  SHOES. 

DSR^mUTVarri  •"'"   ?""'*■"  '«"■  COMFORT.  STYLE  and 
bought  for  **■■  '"■'°*''  **""    *'^«   "►'•'"P    K""**   can    be 

STATE  MUTUAL  BUILDING. 


476M«h,si..  JUST  \A/HAT  YOU  \A/ANT, 

VVbrccsfen' 

IS  A  DOZEN  OF  OUR  NEW 

ROYAL  OVALS 

IN  FOUR  DIFFERENT  SIZES  MADE  AT  THE 

PLODIN  STUDIO. 

These  are  Imported  Mounts  of  the  Latest  Designs. 

ELEGANT  CARBON  AND  PLATINUM  WORK. 

ALSO  MINIATURES  AND  FINE  FRAMES. 

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STATE   MUTUAL   BUILDING. 
SllCnRB.  PRKTT  CO.,  CI-OTHIERS,  33S  TWJKIN  ST. 


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RELIABLE  CLOTHIERS  AND  OUTFITTERS. 

OUR  CLHITVT.     .     .     , 

To^se^I^only   BEST   QUALITY    MERCHANDISE    at    MODERATE 

OUR  SRECIKLTY.     .     .     . 

from   $8  OoTo   Lr  on        n         '^^    'nspectlon    of   what    we   offer 

STATEMENTS  f inf.?   ^'^  J:°"'''"^^   ^^^    of  the  TRUTH  of  our 
a  I  ATEMENTS  and  the  MERIT  of  our  MERCHANDISE. 


IN   OUR  OTHER   DERKRTTW^entS. 

HHTS.   I=UR1SISHINGS  HMD  SHOES. 

DSRrBlLlTV"a't''fo    "^"    ""^^""^^  '°^   COMFORT.   STYLE  and 
bought  for        '  '''^^''   ^"'^'^^  '^^"    *^«    <^»^«aP    kinds    can    be 

STATE  MUTUAL  BUILDING. 


476  Main  St..  JUST  WHAT  YOU  \A//=\NT. 

Worcester.' 

IS  A  DOZEN  OF  OUR  NENA/  . 

ROYAL  OVALS 

IN  FOUR  DIFFERENT  SIZES  MADE  AT  THE 

PLODIN  STUDIO. 

These  are  Imported  Mounts  of  the  Latest  Designs. 

ELEGANT  CARBON  AND  PLATINUM  WORK, 

ALSO  MINIATURES  AND  FINE  FRAMES. 


STATK    MirrUAL    BUILDING. 
In^nRE.   PR«TT  CO..  CUOTHIERS,  335  TV^KIN  ST. 


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W.   B.   SMITH. 


W.   E.  KERR. 


Smith,  Adams  &  Co., 

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 


AND 


FLOUR 


DEALERS. 


8  and  10  Trumbull  Street, 

TELEPHONE  99. 


Worcester,  Mass. 


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Agents  For  the  Following  Brands  of  Flour : 


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WHITE  SPONGE, 
CERESOTA, 
BUTTERFLY, 
AXA, 

GOLDEN  CROWN, 
RUSSIAN  PROCESS, 
LITTLE  GEM, 
WHITE'S  PERFECTION, 


.-.Proprietors  of  the  celebrated  Banner  Brand  Coffee,  put  up  in  one-pound 
tins.  It  has  no  equal.  Try  It  once  and  you  will  always  use  It.  We  carry  a 
full  line  of  Choice  Groceries,  and  many  specialties  which  will  be  of  interest 
to  the  retail  grocer. 

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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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J.  William  Patston. 

The  new  buildings  going  up  on  every  side,  massive  and  magnifi- 
cent triumphs  of  architectural  skill  in  the  business  center,  and  resi- 
dences, beautiful  and  inviting,  in  the  outlying  districts  prove  the 
prosperity  and  healthful  growth  of  Worcester.     The  great  churches 
whose  tapering  spires  rise  heavenward,  the  schoolhouses  equipped 
with  every  modern  improvement  for  the  healthful  education  of  the 
young,  tell  of  iha  religious  and  intelligent  character  of  the  people. 
Palatial  clubhouses  and  spacious  tembles  of  amusement  tell  of  their 
social  nature,  while  the  splendor  and  magnificence   of  the  public 
buildings  are  evidenceofthepublic  spirit  which  is  such  an  important 
element  of  the  prominent  growth  of  a  great  city.     The  architectural 
beauty  of  the  city  reflects  the  highest  credit  upon  our  local  architects, 
and  among  the  leaders  of  the  profession  stands  Mr.  J.  William  Pats- 
ton,  whose  office  is  located  at  No.  44  Front  street.    This  business  was 
established  in  1884  by  Mr.  Patston,  at  No.  12  Front  street,  and  in 
1890  Mr.  Charles  H.  Lincoln  became  a  partner  until   1892.     Since 
that  time  Mr.  Patston  has  carried  on  the  business  successfully.  This 
gentleman  devotes  all  his  energies  to  hisfavorite  profession,  his  plans 
are  accurate  and  complete  in  detail,  embodying  every  feature  sug- 
gested by  his  patrons,  while  his  estimates  and  calculations  are  based 
upon  the  most  practical  and  comprehensive  knowledge  of  qualities 
and  values.     He  is  equally  prepared  to  undertake  the  designing  and 
to  superintend  the  erection  of  churches,  schoolhouses,  business  blocks, 
public  residences,  and  among  the  many  specimens  of  his  skill  in  this 
city  may  be  named  the  grammar  schools,  East  Kendall,  Woodland, 
Millbury  and  Graftson  streets,  and  car  houses  and  power  stations  for 
various  electric  railroads,  including  those  for  the  new  Worcester  and 
Webster  Street  Railroad  at  Oxford.    Mr.  Patston  is  a  native  of  Prov- 
idence, R.  I.,  and  an  expert  at  his  profession  ;  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Worcester  Chapter  of  American  Institute  of  Architects,  besides  other 
local  organizations,  and  is  of  high  repute  in  professional  and  business 
circles. 


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Horticultural  Hall,  18  Front  Street. 

Worcester  County  Horticultural  Society.  Incorporated  March  3, 
1842,  for  the  purpose  of  advancing  the  science  and  encouraging  and 
improving  the  practice  of  Horticulture.     Holds  25  weekly  exhibi- 


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tions  of  Fruit,  Flowers  and  X'egetables;  12  weekly  meetings  for 
discussion.  Has  a  Library  of  3,000  volumes.  Open  every  dav 
from  8  A.  M.  to  6  P.  M.  *  ^      ^ 

0.  B.  HADWEN,  President. 

ADIN  A.  HIXON,  Secretary  and  Librarian. 

NATHANIEL  PAINE,  Treasurer. 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY.  103 

Baldwin  Cycle  Chain  Co. 

This  Company  was  incorporated  with  W.  H.  Gates  as  treasurer 
and  manager^  The  factory  is  equipped  with  the  most  modern 
maclnnery  and  appliances  for  insuring  rapid  and  perfect  production, 
and  every  fac.hty  ,s  at  hand  for  conducting  the  business  under  th^ 
most  favorable  conditions  and  upon  the  largest  scale.     The  Baldwin 

iant  and  b        H  ""/'''"'   '^   ^'"^  ''"'"P^"^  ^PP''-  «  '^-S-Mt 

ZZcTtu;  T     "  "P"'"'"" '' '  '"■^*'-^'-"^«  ''^"^'^ '°  --y 

2linW      ,?  .         •'  """I"'-  ^^^'  P'"^  "^  ^''^''^^^  t«  'he  slotted 

w?th  th  T  "Tf  '"*^  "'^""^  ''""  '^P'^««  -  '^-ove  them 
wth  the  fingers  and  the  aid  of  tools  usually  in  the  saddle-bags. 
rh,s  construction  makes  the  chain  detachable.  An  extra  link  should 

h  iurT  '^  T  '"  '■'"  ''  ^^*=''^^"*  *''«  "•^^  -"  replace  any 
injured  part  on  the  spot.     This  fact  alone,  other  things  being  equaf 

makes  the  Baldwin  superior  to  all  other  chains.     Ihe  pin  in  thi^ 

chain  IS  made  of  high-grade  steel,  hardened  file  proof     This  elm 

lined  with  a  good  block,  produces  the  highest  degree  of  wear  '   T^e 

s'eZd  To"";'"'  '"tJ'"  °'  *'"  '='"■"  '''  '''^''^'  "^y  -'1  -<!  are 
hatasin  :  ""'"""■  °f  assembling  these  chains  is  such 

hat  a  superior,  smooth-running  article  is  the  result.     More  records 

have  been  .nade  on  this  chain  in  the  seasons  of  '97  and  '98  than  al 

IZT-  '''"  ''  ""'^^  ''^  *''^  '^"^^t  fi"i«h  and  is  strictly  high- 

grade  in  every  respect.  Aspecialtyis  made  of  motor  carriage  chains 

r  Txo  2oTr"T  ''  '"°^"  *"  ^^^^'-     ^^-  ^-  Frank!- .Pet    : 
son,  of  No.  205  Lake  street,  Chicago,  is  the  direct  sales  agent. 


Worcester  Lining  Co. 

Worcester  Lining  Co.  was  organised  in  1895  under  the  manage- 
ment of  W^  R.  .Simmons  &  Co.,  at  285  Main  street  (Bay  State 
House).  They  make  a  specialty  of  everything  and  anything  in 
dress  linings,  dress  trimmings  and  tailors'  supplies. 

Carry  them  your  samples  and  they  will  match  them_if  not  in 
stock  they  will  get  them  for  you. 

This  is  the  only  house  in  Worcester  carrying  this  line  of  goods 
All  mail  orders  will  be  promptly  attended  to,  and  will  be  filled 
by  mail  or  express  as  directed. 
Always  the  latest  patterns  in  stock  to  select  from. 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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The  Crompton  &  Knowles  Loom  Works. 

^The  Crompton  &  Knowles  Loom  Works,  the  largest  concern 
in  this  country  devoted  exclusively  to  the  manufacture  of  looms, 
was  organized  in  1897  by  the  combination  of  the  Crompton 
Loom  Works,  the  Knowles  Loom  Works  and  the  Star  Foundry 
Company  into  a  single  concern.  As  it  is  composed  of  the  two  old 
concerns,  the  Crompton  Loom  Works  and  the  Knowles  Loom  Works, 
a  brief  sketch  of  them  may  not  be  out  of  place  here. 


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THB    CR07WTPT0N     St     KNO^n^L^ES    I-007w^    \nLORKS. 

[n  1840  William  Crompton,  a  native  of  Lancashire,  England,  in- 
troduced into  the  Middlesex  Mills,  Lowell,  Mass.,  a  loom  which  he 
had  previously  invented  for  cotton  goods,  and  on  this  loom  was 
woven  the  first  piece  of  fancy  cassimere  ever  made  by  power  in  the 
world.  Shortly  after  this  Mr.  Crompton  made  arrangements  with 
Phelps  <&  Bickford  to  build  his  looms  upon  royalty.  This  con- 
tinued until  the  expiration  of  the  patents.  At  its  expiration  George 
Crompton,  his  son,  obtained  an  extension  of  it  for  seven  years,  and 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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The  Crompton  &  Knowles  Loom  Works. 

^The  Crompton  &  Knowles  Loom  Works,  the  largest  concern 
in  this  country  devoted  exclusively  to  the  manufacture  of  looms, 
was  organized  in  1897  by  the  combination  of  the  Crompton 
Loom  Works,  the  Knowles  Loom  Works  and  the  Star  P^oundry 
Company  into  a  single  concern.  As  it  is  composed  of  the  two  old 
concerns,  the  Crompton  Loom  Works  and  the  Knowles  Loom  Works, 
a  brief  sketch  of  them  may  not  be  out  of  place  here. 


CROMPTON  A   KNOWLES  LOOM  WORKS, 


THE     CROTV^PTON     St     KNOirtZLES     l-OOTW^     iA^ORKS. 

[n  1840  William  Crompton,  a  native  of  Lancashire,  P]ngland,  in- 
troduced into  the  Middlesex  Mills,  Lowell,  Mass.,  a  loom  which  he 
had  previously  invented  for  cotton  goods,  and  on  this  loom  was 
woven  the  first  piece  of  fancy  cassimere  ever  made  by  power  in  the 
world.  Shortly  after  this  Mr.  Crompton  made  arrangements  with 
Phelps  ct  Bickford  to  build  his  looms  upon  royalty.  This  con- 
tinued until  the  expiration  of  the  patents.  At  its  expiration  George 
Crompton,  his  son,  obtained  an  extension  of  it  for  seven  years,  and 


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associating  himself  with  Mr.  Merrill  E.  Furbush  began  the  manu- 
facture of  looms,  locating  in  the  Merrifield  Building,  where  they 
remained  until  it  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1854.  In  1859  Furbush 
&  Crompton  dissolved  partnership,  Mr.  Crompton  continuing  the 
business  and  buying  the  Red  mill  property,  where  they  were  then 
located,  on  which  in  1860  he  erected  a  new  building.  In  1857  Fur- 
bush &  Crompton  doubled  the  speed  of  the  broad  loom.  After 
the  dissolution  of  the  firm  of  Furbush  &  Crompton  the  patent 
rights  were  divided  territorially,  Mr.  Crompton  obtaining  the  New 
England  States  and  the  State  of  New  York,  and  the  rest  of  the 
country  being  alloted  to  Mr.  Furbush.  In  1886  George  Crompton 
died,  and  in  1888  the  Crompton  Loom  Works  was  incorporated. 

Mr.  L.  J.  Knowles  was  born  in  Hardwick,  July  2,  1819.  In  1857 
he  constructed  a  drop  box  mechanism  for  operating  drop  boxes  by 
means  of  cranks  set  at  opposite  extremes  of  their  throw,  under  the 
direction  of  a  pattern  chain  or  its  equivalent,  which  was  the  germ 
of  the  present  Knowles  loom. 

Mr.  L.  J.  Knowles  and  his  brother,  F.   B.   Knowles,  began  the 
manufacture  of  looms  for  sale  under  the  firm  name  of  L.  J.  Knowles 
&  Bro.  at  Warren,  Mass.,  in  1862.     The  first  looms  were  made  for 
hoop  skirt  tapes  with  woven  pocket   for  the  wires.     In  1866  the 
Company  removed  to  Worcester,  occupying  Sargent's  Block  in  Allen 
Court,  where  they  began  the  manufacture  of  cam  looms  for  satinets 
and  other  plain  goods.     In  1868  they  began  to  make  these  looms 
with  drop  boxes  at  each  end  so  as  to  use  different  colors  for  checks, 
Ac.     In  1871  they  began  to  make  the  drop  box  looms  with  chain 
and  fancy  harness  motion  so  as  to  extend  the  range  of  looms  accord- 
ing to  the  requirements  of  the  patterns.     Out  of  this  grew  the  pres- 
ent fancy  woolen  and  worsted  loom,  and  in  the  spring  of  1873  the 
broad  loom  of  this  style  was  built,  and  later  was  shown  at  the 
Centennial    Exhibition   at  Philadelphia.     In   1879   the   Company 
desiring  more  room  removed   to  what  is  known  as  the   Junction 
Shop,  where  they  remained  until   1890,  when  they  removed  to  the 
present   quarters  of  the  Knowles  Department  of  the  Crompton  & 
Knowles  Loom  Works  on  Grand  street. 

In  1884,  Mr.  L.  J.  Knowles  died  and  the  business  was  conducted 
by  his  brother,  Mr.  F.  B.  Knowles,  until  January,  1885,  when  a 
stock  company  was  formed  under  the  name  of  the  Knowles  Loom 
Works. 


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5mith,  Adams  &  Co. 

The  firm  of  Smith,  Adams  &  Co.  was  established  in  1880  as  a 
branch  house  of  the  Springfield  firm  of  Smith  &  Adams,  wholesale 
flour  and  produce  dealers. 

The  firm  consisted  of  W.  B.  Smith,  0.  H.  Smith  and  0.  D.  Adams, 
under  the  management  of  W.  B.  Smith. 


S7«5ITH,  KDM2W5S    &    CO. 

The  business  was  managed  successfully  under  the  above  style  by 
W.  B.  Smith,  who  bought  0.  D.  Adams'  interest  in  January,  1884. 
In  1894  W.  B.  Smith  bought  out  the  interest  of  the  other  partner, 
continuing  the  business  alone  until  the  year  1895,  when  Mr.  W.  E. 
Kerr  was  admitted  as  a  partner,  the  firm's  name.  Smith,  Adams  & 
Co.,  remaining  the  same. 

In  addition  to  the  already  well  established  and  constantly  growing 
flour  business  was  now  added  a  full  line  of  groceries,  and  the  quick 


KNOWLES     BUILDING. 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


109 


Smith,  Adams  &  Co. 

The  firm  of  Smith,  Adams  &  Co.  was  established  in  1880  as  a 
branch  house  of  the  Springfield  firm  of  Smith  &  Adams,  wholesale 
flour  and  produce  dealers. 

The  firm  consisted  of  W.  B.  Smith,  0.  H.  Smith  and  0.  D.  Adams, 
under  the  management  of  W.  B.  Smith. 


S7WIITH,   KDHTW^S    Sl    CO. 

The  business  was  managed  successfully  under  the  above  style  by 
W.  B.  Smith,  who  bouglit  O.  D.  Adams'  interest  in  January,  1884. 
In  1894  W.  B.  Smith  bought  out  the  interest  of  the  other  partner, 
continuing  the  business  alone  until  the  year  1895,  when  Mr.  W.  E.' 
Kerr  was  admitted  as  a  partner,  the  firm's  name,  Smith,  Adams  & 
Co.,  remaining  the  same. 

In  addition  to  the  already  well  established  and  constantly  growing 
flour  business  was  now  added  a  full  line  of  groceries,  and  the  quick 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


and  ready  response  of  the  retail  grocers  of  Worcester  county  to  this 
constantly  increasing  branch  fully  attests  the  wisdom  of  the  under- 
taking. 

In  addition  to  their  store  and  salesrooms  at  8  and  10  Trumbull 
street,  they  have  been  obliged  to  erect  two  large  store-houses  situated 
on  the  B.  &  A.  R.  R.  to  enable  them  to  properly  handle  the  vast 
amount  of  goods  required  by  their  patrons  of  Worcester  and  vicin- 
ity. To  help  distribute  these  the  firm  employ  at  present  eighteen 
clerks,  with  five  traveling  salesmen. 


J.  W.  Loring  Ss.  5on. 

The  manufactories  and  industrial  institutions  of  Worcester  are,  as 
a    rule,   intelligently    and    successfully    directed    and    admirably 
equipped.     The  manufacturing  facilities  are  as  complete  and  perfect 
as  they  can  well  be  made.     One  of  the  representative  industries  is 
that  conducted  by  Messrs.  J.  W.  Loring  &  Son,  at  No.  171   Union 
street.     This  house  stands  pre-eminent  in  the  business  of  Weymouth 
lathe  turning,  band  and  scroll  sawing,  moulding,  furniture  repair- 
ing, and  cabinet  work  in  its  special  branches,  and  makes  a  specialty 
of  wood  turning  for  organ    manufacturers   all   over   the   country. 
The  honored  senior  partner,  Mr.  John  W.  Loring,   was  for  thirty 
years  engaged  in  organ  manufacturing,  and  served  as  superintend- 
ent of  the  Loring  &  Blake  Organ  Company  of  this  city;  while  his 
son,  Mr.  Elmer  H.  Loring,  was  connected  with  the  same  business 
for  nearly  twenty  years.     They  established  their  present  enterprise 
here  in  1892,  and  bring  to  bear  vast  practical  experience  and  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  wants  and  requirements  of  the  trade. 
They  are  thus  eminently   successful   in  meeting   promptly  every 
demand.     The   equipment   of  their   establishment  is  justly   cele- 
brated, all  machinery  being  of  the  latest  and  best  type,  and  the 
quality  of  the  work  turned  out  is  correspondingly  superior.     Renew- 
ing antique  furniture  is  a  specialty  of  this  house.     The  Messrs.  Lor- 
ing are  natives  of  Massachusetts,  prominent  in  all  matters  connected 
with  their  branch  of  industry,  and  have  ever  accorded  a  hearty  sup- 
port to  all  measures  best  calculated  to  advance  the  interests  of  the 
city. 


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and  ready  response  of  the  retail  grocers  of  Worcester  county  to  this 
constantly  increasing  branch  fully  attests  the  wisdom  of  the  under- 
taking. 

In  addition  to  their  store  and  salesrooms  at  8  and  10  Trumbull 
street,  they  have  been  obliged  to  erect  two  large  store-houses  situated 
on  the  B.  &  A.  R.  R.  to  enable  them  to  properly  handle  the  vast 
amount  of  goods  required  by  their  patrons  of  Worcester  and  vicin- 
ity. To  help  distribute  these  the  firm  employ  at  present  eighteen 
clerks,  w4th  five  traveling  salesmen. 


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J.  W.  Loring  &  Son. 

The  manufactories  and  industrial  institutions  of  Worcester  are,  as 
a    rule,    intelligently    and    successfully    directed    and    admirably 
equipped.     The  manufacturing  facilities  are  as  complete  and  perfect 
as  they  can  well  be  made.     One  of  the  representative  industries  is 
that  conducted  by  Messrs.  J.  W.  Loring  &  Son,  at  No.  171    Union 
street.     This  house  stands  pre-eminent  in  the  business  of  Weymouth 
lathe  turning,  band  and  scroll  sawing,  moulding,  furniture  repair- 
ing, and  cabinet  work  in  its  special  branches,  and  makes  a  specialty 
of  wood  turning  for  organ    manufacturers   all    over   the   country. 
The  honored  senior  partner,  Mr.  John  W.  Loring,    was  for  thirty 
years  engaged  in  organ  manufacturing,  and  served  as  superintend- 
ent of  the  Loring  &  Blake  Organ  Company  of  this  city;  while  his 
son,  Mr.  Elmer  H.  Loring,  was  connected  with   the  same  business 
for  nearly  twenty  years.     They  established  their  present  enterprise 
here  in   1892,  and  bring  to  bear  vast  practical  experience  and   a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  wants  and  requirements  of  the  trade. 
They  are  thus  eminently   successful    in   meeting   promptly  every 
demand.     The   equipment   of   their   establishment   is  justly   cele- 
brated, all  machinery  being  of  the  latest  and  best  type,  and  the 
quality  of  the  work  turned  out  is  correspondingly  superior.     Renew- 
ing antique  furniture  is  a  specialty  of  this  house.     The  Messrs.  Lor- 
ing are  natives  of  Massachusetts,  prominent  in  all  matters  connected 
with  their  branch  of  industry,  and  have  ever  accorded  a  hearty  sup- 
port to  all  measures  best  calculated  to  advance  the  interests  of  the 
city. 


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Organized  May  9,  1864. 


Formerly  the  Worcester  Bank,  Incorporated  March  7,  1804. 


WORCESTER   NATIONAL  BANK. 


CAPITAL. 


$250,000. 


Stephbn  SAiisBtiRv,  Pr«ident,    James  P.  Hamilton.  Cashier,     Samdel  D.  Spore,  Asst  Csh. 

Directors:    Stephen  Salisbury,  Josiah  H.  Clarke,  A.  George  Bollock,  Jonas  G    Clark    Charle. 
A.  Chase,  James  P,  Hamilton,  Lincoln  N.  Kinnfcutt,  Edwira  I,  Datis  Charles 


Banking  Hoose,  No.  9  Foster  Street, 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


M.  P.  HiGGixs,  President. 
J.  W.  HiGGi.NS,  Secretary. 


Gbo.  I.  ALDBif,  Treasurer. 
W.  F.  Cole.  Gen.  Manager. 


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Worcester  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Co. 

Capital.  $200,000.00.  Surplus.  JIOO.000.00. 

at  the  rate  of  two  per  cent,  per  annum. 

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Safes  to  Rent  at  $5  to  $50  per  Year. 

BOARD    OP    DIRECTORS: 


JOHN  H.  GOES.  Worcester 
EDWIN  T.  MARBI^E,  Worcester 
E.  D.  BUFFINGTON,  Worcester 


EDWARD  F.  BISCO,  Worcester 
HENRY  F.  HARRIS.  Worcester 
CHARl^ES  S.  BARTON.  Worcester. 


EDWARD  F.  B.SCO.  President.         SAMUEL  H.  CLARV.  Secretary 
OFP.ce  hours:  ,a.m....p.m.  s..„r<..,..,.  m,..p;  '^• 

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H.  C.  Fish  Machine  Works. 


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A.  B.  C.  Code,  4.th  Edition. 
Long  Distance  Telephone. 

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MACHINE  TOOLS  AND  SPECIAL  MACHINERY. 

ESTABLISHED   iSd^  ... 

Office,  152  Union  St. 

Works,  Union  and  Central  Sts. 

Worcester,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


Prof.  W.  L.  Everett  Knowles. 

W.  L.  Everett  Knowles,  the  artist,  was  born  at  Clinton,  Conn.  He 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 
the  first  president  of  Yale  College.  Prof.  Knowles  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  had  some  experience  in 
teaching.  He  studied  art  with  several  distinguished  artists — Geo. 
F.  Wright,  W.  R.  Wheeler,  G.  S.  Rice,  R.  M.  Sherry  and  others. 
He  devoted  two  years  to  designing  and  illustrating  for  the  Kellogg 
&  Buckly  Engraving  and  Lithograph  Company,  Hartford,  but  has 
since  made  a  specialty  of  portrait  and  landscape  painting,  though 
doing  more  or  less  fine  illustrative  work.  He  has  recently  made  a 
series  of  original,  unique  and  beautiful  drawings  for  W.  H.  H. 
(Adirondack)  Murray's  celebrated  ''Holiday  Tales."  The  artist 
has  spent  over  fifteen  years  in  Iowa,  Wisconsin,  Illinois  and  Michi- 
gan, and  has  filled  many  important  commissions  for  portraits  of 
representative  men — many  of  them  of  national  fame — for  the  pub- 
lic buildings,  and  his  marine  and  other  landscapes,  and  figure 
pieces  occupy  positions  of  honor  in  private  collections  and  homes  in 
Eastern  and  Western  cities.  He  was  an  exhibitor  at  the  World's 
Fair,  where  his  "  Kitty  and  I "  and  "  Dog's  Head  "  attracted  much 
attention  and  favorable  commendation,  and  many  engraved  copies 
were  sold.  Mr.  Knowles  was  the  first  president  of  the  "Grand 
Rapids  Art  Association,"  and  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
art  education  and  development,  having  successfully  conducted  sev- 
eral art  exhibitions  of  paintings  by  artists  of  world-wide  celebrity. 
He  was  art  instructor  in  Osage  college  for  two  years,  but  his  numer- 
ous commissions  have  prevented  his  giving  much  attention  to 
teaching  of  late.  He  is  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  press  and  art 
publications,  "Arts  of  America,"  published  at  Chicago  under  the 
auspices  of  "The  Central  Art  Association,"  etc.  His  lectures  to 
artists  and  students  on  "Composition,"  "The  Anatomy  of  Expres- 
sion" and  "ren  Sketches  of  Eminent  American  Artists,"  "Art 
Treasures  of  America,"  "Art  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion," "Art  Notes,"  etc.,  have  given  him  an  enviable  reputation  as 
an  artist,  writer  and  critic.  Prof.  Knowles  has  several  large  can- 
vases which  have  been  pronounced  by  the  press  and  public  as  mas- 
terpieces of  art,  and  these  firintings  are  specially  exhibited  occasion- 
ally :  "The  Vacant  Chair,"  size  6x10  feet;  "Mount  Reverie,"  8x10 
feet;  "Little  Sweet-hearts,"  3x6;  ideal  heads — "Faith,  Hope   and 


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Charity,"  together  with  a  collection  of  marine  landscapes  and  illus- 
trations of  noted  poems,  viz:  Longfellow's  "Priscilla,"  Whittier's 
"Maude  Muller,"  Payne's  "Home,  Sweet  Home,"  Wordworth's 
"Old  Oaken  Bucket,"  Mrs.  Heman's  "The  Breaking  Waves  Dashed 
High,"  Millard's  "When  the  Rolling  Tide  Comes  In,"  Ella  Wheeler 
Wilcox's  "Maurine,"  etc.  These  paintings  are  now  being  repro- 
duced for  the  art  trade.  Among  the  notables  painted  by  this  artist 
are  the  following:  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant,  from  life.  This  painting  was 
highly  praised  by  the  press,  public  and  critics.  President  James  A. 
Garfield — this  picture  was  specially  endorsed  by  Mrs.  Garfield,  and 
Prof  Knowles  painted  several  oil  replicas  of  it  to  order,  and  a  large 


PROF.    int.    I-.    EVERETX    FCNOSn^UES. 

number  of  photographic  copies  were  sold  throughout  the  country. 
The  late  King  Kalaukau,  o.*  Sandwich  Islands,  ordered  five  oil 
paintings  for  the  royal  palace,  which  were  painted  by  Knowles. 
Bishop  Lee,  of  Iowa — this  painting  attracted  much  attention  and 
many  copies  of  it  were  sold.  Hon.  N.  C.  Style,  manufacturer,  Mid- 
dletown,  Conn.;  Hon.  J.  Keough,  Member  of  Legislature,  Milwau- 
kee, Wis.;  Hon.  C.  C.  Cumstock,  ex-Member  of  Congress,  Michigan; 
Hon.  Chas.  E.  Belknap,  ex-Member  of  Congress  of  Michigan ;  Hon. 
J.  M.  Weston,  President  World's  Fair  Commission,  Michigan ;  Hon. 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


Prof.  W.  L.  Everett  Knowles. 

W.  L.  Everett  Knowles,  the  artist,  was  born  at  Clinton,  Conn.  He 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 
the  first  president  of  Yale  College.  Prof.  Knowles  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  had  some  experience  in 
teaching.  He  studied  art  with  several  distinguished  artists — Geo. 
F.  Wright,  W.  R.  Wheeler,  G.  S.  Rice,  R.  M.  Sherry  and  others. 
He  devoted  two  years  to  designing  and  illustrating  for  the  Kellogg 
&  Buckly  Engraving  and  Lithograph  Company,  Hartford,  but  has 
since  made  a  specialty  of  portrait  and  landscape  painting,  though 
doing  more  or  less  fine  illustrative  work.  He  has  recently  made  a 
series  of  original,  unique  and  beautiful  drawings  for  W.  H.  H. 
(Adirondack)  Murray's  celebrated  "Holiday  Tales."  The  artist 
has  spent  over  fifteen  years  in  Iowa,  Wisconsin,  Hlinois  and  Michi- 
gan, and  has  filled  many  important  commissions  for  portraits  of 
representative  men — many  of  them  of  national  fame — for  the  pub- 
lic buildings,  and  his  marine  and  other  landscapes,  and  figure 
pieces  occupy  positions  of  honor  in  private  collections  and  homes  in 
Eastern  and  Western  cities.  He  was  an  exhibitor  at  the  World^s 
Fair,  where  his  "Kitty  and  I"  and  "Dog's  Head"  attracted  much 
attention  and  fiivorable  commendation,  and  many  engraved  copies 
were  sold.  Mr.  Knowles  was  the  first  president  of  the  "Grand 
Rapids  Art  Association,"  and  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
art  education  and  development,  having  successfully  conducted  sev- 
eral art  exhibitions  of  paintings  by  artists  of  world-wide  celebrity. 
He  was  art  instructor  in  Osage  college  for  two  years,  but  his  numer- 
ous commissions  have  prevented  his  giving  much  attention  to 
teaching  of  late.  He  is  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  press  and  art 
publications,  "Arts  of  America,"  published  at  Chicago  under  the 
auspices  of  "The  Central  Art  Association,"  etc.  His  lectures  to 
artists  and  students  on  "Composition,"  "The  Anatomy  of  Expres- 
sion" and  "Pen  Sketches  of  Eminent  American  Artists,"  "Art 
Treasures  of  America,"  "  Art  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion," "Art  Notes,"  etc.,  have  given  him  an  enviable  reputation  as 
an  artist,  writer  and  critic.  Prof.  Knowles  has  several  large  can- 
vases which  have  been  pronounced  by  the  press  and  public  as  mas- 
terpieces of  art,  and  these  fKintings  are  specially  exhibited  occasion- 
ally :  "The  Vacant  Chair,"  size  6x10  feet;  "Mount  Reverie,"  8x10 
feet;  "Little  Sweet-hearts,"  3x6;  ideal  heads — "Faith,  Hope   and 


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Charity,"  together  with  a  collection  of  marine  landscapes  and  illus- 
trations of  noted  poems,  viz:  Longfellow's  "Priscilla,"  Whittier's 
"Maude  Muller,"  Payne's  "Home,  Sweet  Home,"  Wordworth's 
"Old  Oaken  Bucket,"  Mrs.  Heman's  "The  Breaking  Waves  Dashed 
High,"  Millard's  "When  the  Rolling  Tide  Comes  In,"  Ella  Wheeler 
Wilcox's  "Maurine,"  etc.  These  paintings  are  now  being  repro- 
duced for  the  art  trade.  Among  the  notables  painted  by  this  artist 
are  tiie  following:  (Jen.  U.  S.  Grant,  from  life.  This  painting  was 
highly  praised  by  the  press,  public  and  critics.  President  James  A. 
(Jarfield — this  picture  was  specially  endorsed  by  Mrs.  Garfield,  and 
Prof.  Knowles  painted  several  oil  replicas  of  it  to  order,  and  a  large 


RROF.     irti.     L.     EVERETT     KNOift^LES. 

number  of  photographic  copies  were  sold  throughout  the  country. 
The  late  King  Kalaukau,  of  Sandwich  Islands,  ordered  five  oil 
paintings  for  the  royal  palace,  which  were  painted  by  Knowles. 
Bishop  Lee,  of  Iowa — this  painting  attracted  much  attention  and 
many  copies  of  it  were  sold.  Hon.  N.  C.  Style,  manufacturer,  Mid- 
dletown,  Conn.;  Hon.  J.  Keough,  Member  of  Legislature,  Milwau- 
kee, Wis.;  Hon.  C.  C.  Cumstock,  ex-Member  of  Congress,  Michigan; 
Hon.  Chas.  E.  Belknap,  ex-Member  of  Congress  of  Michigan;  Hon. 
J.  M.  Weston,  President  World's  Fair  Commission,  Michigan  ;  Hon. 


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J.  W.  Champlin,  ex-Associate  Justice,  Michigan ;  Hon.  J.  W.  Mont- 
gomery, Associate  Justice  Supreme  Court;  Col.  W    T   McGurrin 
2d  Kegiment  M.  S.  T.     This  painting  is  three-quarter  life  size,  in 
full  uniform,  occupying  a  conspicuous  position,  together  with  sev- 
eral other  works  by  Knowles,  in  the  new  State  Armory  of  Michigan, 
with  John  L.  Jennings,    founder  of  Masonic  Home.     Prof.  A    j' 
Shellnmn,  the  optician;  Hon.  E.  B.  Fisher,  President  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, Michigan;  Rev.  Tupper,  D.  D.  LL.  D.,  President  Richmond 
Va.,  College;  Rev.  B.  Tupper,  D.  D.,  the  eloquent  Baptist,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.;  H.  L.  Ross,  art  dealer,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Rev  J   Kep- 
hart.  President  Western  College,  Iowa;  J.  W.  Converse,  president 
bank  and  capitalist,  and  many  others-bankers,  lawyers,  attorneys 
physicians,  dentists,  etc.     The  new  City  Hall,  the  Masonic  Home' 
the  County  Court  House  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building  have  over  fifty 
portraits  of  notables  hanging  on  their  walls,  and  in  the  Morton 
House,  one  of  the  leading  hotels  of  Michigan,  there  are  twenty-five 
landscapes  and  marines  painted  by  Knowles.     The  artist  enjoys  the 
acquaintance  and  friendship  of  many  distinguished  people.     He  has 
quite  a  collection  of  books  presented  to  him  by  the  authors,  and  has 
many  autograph  letters  from  Mr.  James  A.  Garfield,  W.  H  H  Mur- 
ray,  the  author;  Mr.  Jean  Blewitt,  the  star  poet  and  writer  of  Can- 
ada; Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox,  etc.     Since  his  return  to  New  England 
about  a  year  ago,  he  has  sold  forty  landscapes,  marine  and  figure 
paintings,  and  executed  a  number  of  commissions  for  representative 
citizens,  among  whom  we  specially  mention  W.  H.  H.  Murray  Mr 
A.  P.  Childs,  General  Agent  N.  Y.  Life  Ins.  Co.,  New  Haven^  Ct 
and  the  following  Worcester  citizens:    Hon.  Thos.  H.  Dodge  who 
was  for  years  in  the  office  of  Commissioner  of  Patents  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  afterwards  in  his  capacity  as  legal  counsel  in  patent 
cases  he  has  won  a  national  reputation   second  to  none.     He  is 
also  well  known  by  his  generous  gifts  to  the  Odd  Fellows'  Hgme 
the  churches,  etc.     This  portrait,  which  is  a  three-quarter  length 
hfe-size  0.1,  has  been  highly  praised  by  the  press  and  public  as  a 
sterling  likeness  and  as  a  fine  work  of  art.     Hon.  Henry  A.  Marsh 


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President  Central  Bank  and  one  of  the  ex-mayors  of  Worcester;  it 
was  during  his  administration  that  the  new  City  Hall  was  erected, 
and  many  important  measures  adopted  for  the  benefit  of  the  city. 
This  portrait  was  specially  painted  for  the  new  City  Hall.  Sullivan 
Forehand,  the  well  known  manufacturer,  recently  deceased ;  Mr. 
Frederick  Forehand,  of  the  Forehand  Arms  Co.;  Mr.  W.  H.  Inman, 
of  Pratt  and  Inman,  manufacturers  and  dealers  in  steel  goods;  Mr. 
Geo.  H.  Freeman,  the  optician ;  Mr.  H.  Shervee,  the  photographer ; 
Mr.  F.  H.  Curtis,  the  well  known  artist  photographer  associated  with 
Mr.  Shervee,  and  others.  Prof  Knowles  has  a  number  of  commis- 
sions to  execute  for  citizens  of  New  England,  and  will  be  at  Worces- 
ter from  time  to  time,  with  headquarters  at  Hotel  Pleasant,  on 
Pleasant  street. 

Daniel  F.  Rourke. 

Insurance  exerte  so  powerful  an  influence  in  the  industrial  and 
commercial  development  of  Worcester  that  we  would  but  poorly 
perform  our  mission  without  suitable  reference  to  the  underwriting 
agencies  of  the  city,  and  among  the  number  none  have  been  more 
successful  than  that  conducted  by  Mr.  Daniel  F.  Rourke  at  No.  438 
Main  street.  This  agency  was  opened  by  Mr.  Rourke  on  July  1, 
1886,  and  has  secured  an  enduring  hold  on  public  favor  and  confi- 
dence. Mr.  Rourke  is  especially  prominent  in  insurance  circles  as 
agent  for  the  Fireman's  Fund  Insurance  Company,  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. This  company  has  a  cash  capital  of  $1,000,000,  a  net  sur- 
plus of  11,361,730.04,  and  assets  amounting  to  $3,902,970.01.  It  is 
conducted  on  sound  and  conservative  business  principles,  while  its 
management  is  characterized  by  energy  and  sagacity,  coupled  with 
equitable  and  thoroughly  honorable  methods.  All  desirable  fire 
risks  are  assumed  at  rates  consistent  with  absolute  security;  and  a 
policy  written  in  this  reliable  company,  conditions  complied  with,  is 
as  good  for  its  face  value  as  a  United  States  treasury  note.  Mr. 
Rourke  has  been  in  the  insurance  business  for  many  years,  and 
served  as  United  States  Deputy  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue  from 


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1893  to  1895,  inclusive.  He  has  been  a  memberof  the  Young  Men's 
Democratic  Club  of  Massachusetts  since  its  organization  in  1888, 
and  one  of  the  Democratic  city  committee  since  1886.  During  that 
year  he  had  full  management  of  the  campaign  which  resulted  in 
the  triumphant  election  of  Hon.  John  E.  Russell  to  Congress,  the 
first  Democratic  congressmen  elected    from   the  Worcester  district 


DKNIEU  P.  ROURKE. 

since  1852.  Mr.  Rourke  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  county 
committee,  secretary  of  the  congressional  committee  and  a  member- 
at-large  of  the  State  central  committee.  In  the  late  campaign  for 
congressman  from  this  district  he  had  more  to  do  with  the  nomina- 
tion and  election  of  Hon.  John  R.  Thayer  than  any  other  man  in 
the  district,  defeating  the  Hon.  Joseph  H.  Walker,  who  had  served 
this  district  in  Congress  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Rourke  is  one  of  the 
wheel-horses  of  the  Democratic  party  in  Massachusetts.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  Father  Matthew  T.  A.  Society,  the  Foresters,  and  the 
Wachusett  Boat  Club. 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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Harvey  Bradish  Wilder, 

Son  of  Alexander  H.  and  Harriet  E.  Wilder,  was  born  in  Worces- 
ter  October  12,  1836.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and 
at  Lieicester  Academy. 

In  1855  he  became  a  clerk  in  Ticknor  &  Fields',  the  widelv  known 
publishers  of  Boston,  in  their  famous  "Old  Corner  Book  store  " 

He  returned  to  Worcester  in  September,  1856,  and  entered  the 
office  of  the  Register  of  Deeds  as  head  clerk,  holding  this  position 
until  the  death  of  his  father  in  1874,  when  he  was  appointed  by  the 
County  Commissioners  to  succeed  him  as  Registrar 

1  J.!*'"  **f  r  ^^  '■^''^"^'^  '"  ^^^^'  •*"'  """^  «l««'ed  to  fill  it  again  in 
1870,  and  by  successive  re-elections  has  continued  to  discharge  its 
duties  to  the  present  time,  having  now  been  connected  with  the  ree- 
velr  1876*  ^^"'^  ''^  forty-three  years,   with   the  exception  of  the 

Mr.  Wilder  has  always  had  an  interest  in  military  matters  and 
was  a  member  of  the  City  Guards  from  1856  to  1861,  and  for  manv 
years  has  been  a  member  of  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany of  Boston.  He  is  connected  in  Worcester  with  several  social 
and  other  organizations. 

As  a  public  official  he  is  distinguished  by  his  uniform  courtesy 
and  in  private  life  is  esteemed  for  his  sterling  qualities 

Mr.  Wilder  has  been  twice  married-first  to  Anna  F.  Chapman  of 
Ossipee,  N.  H.,  who  died  November  12,  1864;  second  to  Mary  J 
daughter  of  Dr.  Jefferson  Pratt  of  Hopkinton,  June  14,  1870      He 
has  one  son,  Charles  P.,  by  the  last  marriage 


Fred  Wendell  White. 

Born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  March  16,  1862,  removed  to 
Grafton,  Mass.,  in  the  fall  of  1866,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
schoob  of  that  town,  holding  his  residence  there  until  April 
7,  1879,  when  he  moved  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  has 
since  resided,  having  been  employed  in  Barnard,  Sumner  &  Co  's 
from  the  above  date  until  March  8,  1880,  then  in  W.  H  Morse  & 
Co.'s  until  October  H  1880,  and  from  there  to  the  First  Nat^nal 
Bank,  remaining  until  Sep(ember24, 1897,  when  the  office  of  Assist 
ant  Treasurer  n.  the  City  Treasurer's  office  was  accepted,  after  urgent 
solicitation,  and  was  duly  elected  Treasurer  on  January  9  1399 


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1893  to  1805,  inclusive.  He  lias  been  a  meniberof  the  Young  Men's 
Democratic  Club  of  Massachusetts  since  its  organization  in  1888, 
and  one  of  the  Democratic  city  committee  since  lS8f).  During  that 
year  he  had  full  management  of  tiie  campaign  which  resulted  in 
the  triumphant  election  of  Hon.  John  K.  Russell  to  Congress,  the 
first  Democratic   congressmen   elected    from    the   Worcester  district 


DANIEL    F=.    ROURKE. 

Since  1852.  Mr.  Kourke  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  county 
committee,  secretary  of  the  congressional  committee  and  a  member- 
at-largeof  the  State  central  committee.  In  the  late  campaign  for 
congressman  from  this  district  he  had  more  to  do  with  the  nomina- 
tion and  election  of  Hon.  John  K.  Thayer  than  any  other  man  in 
the  district,  defeating  the  Hon.  JosejJi  H.  Walker,  who  had  served 
this  district  in  Congress  for  ten  years.  Mr.  iiourke  is  one  of  the 
wheel-horses  of  the  Democratic  party  in  Massachusetts.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  Father  Ahitthew  T.  A.  Society,  the  Foresters,  and  the 
Wachusett  Boat  Club. 


WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 


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Harvey  Bradish  Wilder, 

Son  of  Alexander  H.  and  Harriet  E.  Wilder,  was  born  in  Worces- 
ter  October  12,  1836.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and 
at  J^eicester  Academy. 

In  1855  he  became  a  clerk  in  Ticknor  &  Fields',  the  widely  known 
publishers  of  Boston,  in  their  famous  "Old  Corner  Book  store  " 
He  returned  to  Worcester  in  September,  1850,  and  entered  the 

l^Ju  f  r  ^Tu'  f  !'''^'  "'  ^''^  '^''^'  ''«'^*"g  this  position 
until  the  death  of  h.s  father  in  1874,  when  he  was  appointed  bv  the 
County  Commissioners  to  succeed  him  as  Registrar 

This  office  he  resigned  in  1875,  but  was  elected  to  fill  it  again  in 
18,0,  and  by  successive  re-elections  has  continued  to  discharge  its 
duties  to  the  present  time,  having  now  been  connected  with  the  reir- 
Te7r  1876*  ^'""^  "^  forty-three  years,   with  the  exception  of  the 

Mr.  Wilder  has  always  had  an  interest  in  military  matters  and 
was  a  meniber  of  the  City  Guards  from  185t5  to  1861,  and  for  manv 
years  has  been  a  member  of  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany  of  Boston.  He  is  connected  in  Worcester  with  several  social 
and  other  organizations. 

Asa  public  official  he  is  distinguished  by  his  uniform  courtesy 
and  in  private  life  is  esteemed  for  his  sterling  qualities  ' 

Mr.  Wilder  has  been  twice  married-first  to  Anna  F.  Chapman  of 
Ossipee,   N.  H.,  who  die.l  November  12,  1864;  sec-ond  to  Marv  J 
daughter  of  Dr.  Jefferson  Pratt  of  Hopkinton,  June  14,  1870  '  He 
has  one  son,  ( 'harles  P.,  by  the  last  marriage 


Fred  Wendell  White. 

Born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  March  16,  1862,  removed  to 
Grafton,  Mass.,  in  the  fall  of  1866,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
schools^  o.  that  town,  holding  his  residence  there  until  April 
-,  1879,  when  he  moved  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  has 
since  resided,  having  been  employed  in  Barnard,  Sumner  &  Co  's 
from  the  above  date  until  March  8,  1880,  then  in  W.  H  Morse  & 
Co.'s  until  October  1,  ,880.  and  from  there  to  the  First  Nat  ^a1 
Bank  remaining  until  September  24, 1897,  when  the  office  of  Assist- 
ant 1  reasurer  in  the  City  Treasurer's  office  was  accepted,  after  urgent 
solicitation,  and  was  duly  elected  Treasurer  on  January  •>  1899 


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WORCESTER  OF  TO-DAY. 
Jphti  A.  Sherman. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch,  John  A.  Sherman,  was  born  in  Brim- 
field,  Mass.,  June  6th,  1852.  His  early  life  was  spent  at  his  native 
farm,  where  he  remained  until  April,  1870,  graduating  from  the 
Hitchcock  Academy  in  the  spring  of  the  same  year,  after  which  he 
accepted  a  position  in  a  country  store  at  Nortlibridge  Centre,  remnin- 
ing  there  until  April  23,  1877.  Later  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Ames  Plow  Co.  of  this  city,  where  he  continued  until  January  1st, 
1882,  having  charge  of  the  shipping  department.  On  January  1st, 
1882,  he  began  with  the  Norton  Door  Check  and  Spring  Co.  of  Bos- 
ton, as  acting  manager  and  bookkeeper,  where  he  remained  until 
March,  1884.  On  March  17,  1884,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Whitcomb  Envelope  Co.  as  bookkeeper,  where  by  close  application 
and  industry  he  arose  to  be  their  General  Superintendent  and  Assist- 
ant Treasurer,  until  the  present  envelope  trust  was  formed,  when  he 
he  resigned  (November  3,  1898,)  and  formed  the  Sherman  Envelope 
Co.,  of  which  he  is  President  and  Treasurer.  Mr.  Sherman,  through- 
out his  entire  business  and  private  life,  has  displayed  a  marked 
kindness  towards  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated,  and  his  host 
of  friends  can  testify  to  his  careful  consideration  for  the  feelings  of 
others.  ''  As  ye  would  that  men  should  do  to  you,  do  ye  also  to 
them,'^  has  been  his  motto  through  life.  Organi*zed  labor  of  Wor- 
cester is  not  unconscious  of  the  just  treatment  received  at  the  hands 
of  this  gentleman,  and  can  bespeak  for  him  a  successful  future  and 
the  feeling  that  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his  company  has 
not  been  misplaced. 

James  P.  J.  Cahill. 

Among  the  notable  industries  of  which  Worcester  is  justly  proud 
none  deserves  more  careful  recognition  than  the  establishment  of 
James  P.  J.  Cahill.  This  gentleman  started  in  the  plumbing  busi- 
ness in  this  city  in  1894  and  has  for  the  past  four  years  l)een  located 
at  9  Prospect  street,  being  for  a  short  time  at  52  Southbridge  street. 
Among  the  prominent  buildings  of  the  city  that  he  has  equipped 
with  plumbing  may  be  mentioned:  St.  Vincent^s  Hospital,  the 
residence  of  George  C.  Bryant,  Woodland  street;  E.  C.  Potter,  Rich- 
mond Heights;  Dr.  Swasey,  Montvale;  J.  D.  Crosbv,  Perkins  street; 
Mrs.  Booth,  Highland  street.  He  is  the  inventor  of  Cahill's  Im- 
proved  Water  Closet  Syphon,  which  is  practically  an  indestructible 
syphon,  having  no  seat,  no  packing  or  washers  of  any  description. 
It  has  no  opening  beneath  the  water  level  in  the  tank.  It  is  manu- 
factured of  brass  casting  and  tubing  and  will  not  get  out  of  order, 
leakage  being  impossible.  This  syphon  can  be  safely  guaranteed 
for  fifty  years.  The  inspection  of  all  builders  and  contractors  is 
solicited  by  Mr.  Cahill.  A  partial  description  and  view  of  this  new 
invention  may  be  had  by  referring  to  page  44  in  this  volume. 


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John  A.  Sherman. 

The  subject  of  tliis  sketch,  John  A.  Sherman,  was  born  in  Brini- 
field,  Mass.,  June  6th,  1852.  His  early  life  was  spetjt  at  his  native 
farm,  where  he  remained  until  April,  1870,  graduating  from  the 
Hitchcock  Academy  in  the  spring  of  the  same  year,  after  whicli  he 
accepted  a  position  in  a  country  store  at  Northbridge  Centre,  remain- 
ing there  until  April  23,  1877.*^  Later  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Ames  Plow  Co.  of  this  city,  where  he  contitmed  until  January  1st, 
1882,  having  charge  of  the  shipping  department.  On  January  Isti 
1S82,  he  began  with  the  Norton  Door  Check  and  Spring  Co.  of  Bos- 
ton, as  acting  manager  and  bookkeeper,  where  he  remained  until 
March,  1884.  On  March  17,  1884,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Whitcomb  Envelope  Co.  as  bookkeef)er.  where  by  close  application 
and  industry  he  arose  to  be  their  General  Superintendent  and  Assist- 
ant Treasurer,  until  the  present  envelope  trust  was  formed,  when  he 
he  resigned  (November  :),  18i>8,)  and  formed  the  Sherman  Envelope 
Co.,  of  which  he  is  President  and  Treasurer.  Mr.  Sherman,  through- 
out his  entire  business  and  private  life,  has  displaved  a  msirked 
kindness  towards  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated,  and  his  host 
of  friends  can  testify  to  his  careful  consideration  for  the  feelings  of 
others.^  ^' As  ye  would  that  men  should  do  to  you,  do  ye  also  to 
them,''  has  been  his  motto  through  life.  Organized  labor  of  Wor- 
cester is  not  unconscious  of  the  just  treatment  received  at  the  hands 
of  this  gentleman,  and  can  bespeak  for  him  a  successful  future  and 
the  feeling  that  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his  company  has 
not  been  misplaced. 

James  P.  J.  Cahill. 

Among  the  notable  industries  of  which  Worcester  is  justly  i)roud 
none  deserves  more  careful  recognition  than  the  establislnnent  of 
James  P.  J.  Cahill.  This  gentleman  started  in  the  plumbing  busi- 
ness in  this  city  in  18114  and  has  for  the  past  four  vears  been  located 
at  0  Prospect  street,  being  for  a  short  time  at  52  Southbridge  street. 
Among  the  prominent  buildings  of  the  city  that  he  has  ecjuipped 
with  plumbing  may  be  mentioned:  St.  *^Vincent*s  Hospital,  the 
residence  of  George  C.  Bryant,  Woodland  street;  E.  C.  Potter,  Rich- 
mond Heights;  Dr.  Swasey,  Montvale;  J.  D.  Crosbv,  Perkins  street; 
Mrs.  Booth,  Highland  street.  He  is  the  inventor  of  Cahill's  Im- 
proved  Water  Closet  Syphon,  which  is  practically  an  indestructible 
syphon,  having  no  seat,  no  packing  or  washers  of  any  description. 
It  has  no  opening  beneath  the  water  level  in  the  tank.  It  is  manu- 
factured of  brass  casting  and  tubing  and  will  not  get  out  of  order, 
leakage  being  impossible.  This  syphon  can  be  safely  guaranteed 
for  fifty  years.  The  inspection  of  all  builders  and  contractors  is 
solicited  by  Mr.  Cahill.  A  partial  description  and  view  of  this  new 
invention  may  be  had  by  referring  to  page  44  in  this  volume. 


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Core  Makers'  International  Union  of  America,  Local  No.  15. 

On  the  26th  of  January,  1891,  twenty-five  coremakers  of  this 
city  met  in  Carpenters  and  Joiners'  Hall,  on  Front  street,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  organize  the  Worcester  Core  Makers'  Union.     A  man  from 
the  Warren  Core  Makers'  Union,  named  Thomas  Manning,  who  was 
here  at  the  time,  acted  as  organizer  and  chairman.     He  adminis- 
tered the  oath  of  allegiance  to  twenty-five  men,  who  proceeded  to 
elect  officers  for  the  ensuing  six  months.     The  result  of  the  first 
election  was  as  follows:     President,  John  Gleason;  Vice-president, 
Thomas   Hickey;  Recording  Secretary,  P.  J.  Sullivan;  Financial 
Secretary,  James  Cronin  ;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Mara;  Doorkeeper,  Chas. 
Laverty;  Inductor,  Michael  McDonald;  Trustees,  James  Murphy, 
F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist,  John  Croake;  Auditors,  James  Burke,  John  Ma- 
loney,  Patrick  Cronin.     (Of  these  men  all  are  with  the  Union  at 
the  present  time,  except  three,  and  of  these  three,  one,  James  Mur- 
phy, left  the  city,  hecame  a  member  of  the  Boston  local,  which  he 
represented  as  a  delegate  at  the  convention  of  core  makers  held  in 
Cincinnati,  December  18th,  1896,   for   the  purpose  of  forming  an 
International  Union  of  Core  Makers,  and  upon  its  formation  was 
elected  first  president  of  the  Core  Makers'  International  Union  of 
America.) 

The  Union  was  now  fairly  launched  as  a  local,  being  the  first 
attempt  ever  made  to  organize  the  craft  in  this  city.  In  this  attempt 
it  was  successful,  and  in  the  following  October  made  application  for 
a  charter  to  the  A.  F.  of  L.,  into  the  ranks  of  which  it  was  admitted 
October  22d,  1891.  The  organization  continued  to  grow  and  pros- 
per, having  doubled  its  membership  during  the  first  year  of  its 
existence,  getting  into  its  ranks  nearly  every  core  maker  in  the  city, 
and  all  of  the  best  and  most  skillful  men  in  the  trade  here. 

When  the  panic  of  '93  struck  the  city  it  found  the  local  in  a 
flourishing  condition,  with  plenty  of  money  in  its  treasury;  but  as 
times  were  hard  and  members  were  being  continually  thrown  out  of 
employment,  measures  for  their  relief  were  adopted,"^  which  enabled 
ihe  organization  to  maintain  its  existence  intact  during  the  period 


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Core  Makers*  International  Union  of  America,  Local  No.   15. 

On  the  26th  of  January,  1891,   twenty-five  coremakers  of  this 
city  met  in  ('arpenters  and  Joiners'  Hall,  on  Front  street,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  organize  the  Worcester  Core  Makers'  Union.     A  man  from 
the  Warren  Core  Makers'  Union,  named  Thomas  Manning,  who  was 
here  at  the  time,  acted  as  organizer  and  chairman.     He  adminis- 
tered  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  twenty-five  men,  who  proceeded  to 
elect  officers  for  the  ensuing  six  months.     The  result  of  the  first 
election  was  as  follows:     President,  John  Gleason;  Vice-president, 
Thomas   Hickey;  Recording  Secretary,   P.  J.  Sullivan;  Financial 
Secretary,  James  Cronin  ;  Treasurer,  J.  W .  Mara;  Doorkeeper,  Chas. 
Laverty;  Inductor,  Michael   McDonald;  Trustees,   James  Murphy, 
F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist,  John  Croake;  Auditors,  James  Burke,  John  Ma- 
loney,  Patrick  Cronin.     (Of  these  men  all  are  with  the  Union  at 
the  present  time,  except  three,  and  of  these  three,  one,  James  Mur- 
phy, left  the  city,  hecame  a  member  of  the  Boston  local,  which  he 
represented  as  a  delegate  at  the  convention  of  core  makers  held  in 
Cincinnati,  December   18th,  18im,   for   the  purpose  of  forming  an 
International  Union  of  Core  Makers,  and  upon  its  formation  was 
elected  first  president  of  the  Core  Makers'  International  Union  of 
America.) 

The  Union  was  now  fairly  launched  as  a  local,  being  the  first 
attempt  ever  made  to  organize  the  craft  in  this  city.  In  this  attempt 
it  was  successful,  and  in  the  following  October  made  application  for 
a  charter  to  the  A.  F.  of  L.,  into  the  ranks  of  which  it  was  admitted 
October  22d,  1891.  The  organization  continued  to  grow  and  pros- 
per, having  doubled  its  membership  during  the  first  year  of  its 
existence,  getting  into  its  ranks  nearly  every  core  maker  in  the  city, 
and  all  of  the  best  and  most  skillful  men  in  the  trade  here. 

When  the  panic  of  '93  struck  the  city  it  found  the  local  in  a 
flourishing  condition,  with  plenty  of  money  in  its  treasury;  but  as 
times  were  hard  and  members  were  being  continually  thrown  out  of 
employment,  measures  for  their  relief  were  adopted,^  which  enabled 
ihe  organization  to  maintain   its  existence  intact  during  the  period 


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of  depression;  but,  as  many  of  its  members  had  left  the  city  seek- 
ing employment,  it  was  with  a  decreased  membership.  With  the 
return  of  business  prosperity,  however,  active  interest  in  the  affairs 
of  the  local  again  returned,  with  the  result  that  an  invitation  to 
join  the  Core  Makers'  International  Union  of  America  was  accepted, 
the  local  affiliating  with  the  International  September  1st,  1897,  as 
Local  No.  15,  C.  M.  I.  U.  of  A. 

On  the  12th  of  September,  1898,  the  Union  sought  to  establish  a 
minimum  rate  of  wages  of  $2.25  per  day  of  nine  hours,  and  were 
successful,  as  all  of  the  shops  in  which  our  men  were  employed, 
except  two,  granted  our  request,  and  in  these  two  our  men  refused 
to  work  until  the  request  was  granted.  From  that  time  to  the  pres- 
ent the  Union  has  been  prosperous  in  every  way,  its  membership  at 
the  present  time  being  the  greatest  in  its  history  and  its  members 
taking  a  greater  interest  than  ever  before  in  the  affairs  of  the  Union. 
These  officers  constitute  the  board  of  government  at  the  present 
time:  President,  F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist;  Vice-president,  James  Price; 
Recording  Secretary,  Albert  Need  ham  ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  J. 
W.  Mara;  Financial  Secretary,  John  Harrington;  Treasurer,  John 
Croake;  Doorkeeper,  Patrick  Connors;  Inductor,  John  Peterson; 
Trustees,  John  R.  O'Leary,  John  Gleason,  James  Burns;  Auditors, 
Chas.  Laverty,  Fred  Riedl,  F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist;  Membership  Com- 
mittee, F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist,  John  Gleason,  J.  W.  Mara,  John  Harring- 
ton; Executive  Board,  F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist,  John  Gleason,  J.  W. 
Mara,  John  R.  O'Leary;  Delegates  to  Central  Labor  Union,  F.  P.  A. 
Gilchrist,  John  Croake,  J.  W.  Mara,  Thomas  Waters,  Albert  Need- 
ham  ;  Hall  Trustee,  F.  P.  A.  Gilchrist. 


Brotherhood  of  Painters  and  Decorators  of  America,  No.  48. 

Union  48  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Painters  and  Decorators  of 
America  was  organized  in  1887,  and  has  been  in  existence  since 
then.  By  a  mutual  agreement  with  the  boss  painters  of  Worcester 
in  the  spring  of  1893,  the  Union  gained  the  nine-hour  day  for  the 
painters  of  Worcester.  It  has  always  been  one  of  the  first  to  give 
assistance  to  any  organization  that  needed  it,  and  has  a  fund  for  the 
payment  of  five  dollars  per  week  to  any  of  its  members  in  sickness. 
Headquarters  also  provides  for  the  sum  of  $150  to  the  relatives  or 
heirs  of  deceased  members  and  $50  for  the  death  of  a  member's 


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Wife.  There  is  also  disability  benefits  of  $150  for  members  who  are 
incapacitated  from  work.  The  initiation  fee  is  at  present  $5,  and 
the  dues  fifty  cents  per  month,  which  also  provides  all  the  trade 
union  benefits  enjoyed  by  all  trade  unions.  When  the  convention 
was  called  in  Cleveland,  0.,  in  December,  1897,  for  the  purpose  of 
putting  the  National  Brotherhood  on  a  more  satisfactory  footing 
Union  48  sent  Brother  William  Crosbie  a  delegate  there.  The  result 
of  that  convention  was  the  re-organization  of  the  National  Brother- 
hood  and  the  amalgamation  of  the  two  opposing  factions  of  the 
painters. 

We  commenced  at  Cleveland  in  December  with  but  thirty-one 
unions.     In  July  we  numbered  ninety-three  and  forming  new  unions 
each  month.     Seven  unions  joined  our  National    Brotherhood    in 
July.     Now,  locally.  Union  48  of  Worcester  is  in  a  better  position 
than  It  ever  was  before.     We  number  now  nearly  200  members,  and 
our  union  card  is  recognized  by  every  boss  painter  and  decorator  of 
the  city   who  belongs  to  the  Master  Painters'   Association.     Both 
organizations  are  making  an  honest  endeavor  to  put  the  trade  in  a 
better  position  than  before,  by  putting  a  stop  to  the  scamping  sys- 
em  of  work  which  has  disgraced  the  city  of  Worcester  for  some 
u^:^-      Z  "f '"""^^    organization  is  affiliated  with    the   National 
Building  Trades  Council  of  America,  and  we  are  also  represented  in 
the   Worcester  Building  Trades  Council.     The  meetings  are  held 
1  hursday  evenings  at  8  P.  M.,  at  Union  Hall,  64  Southbridge  street 


Amalgamated  Association  of  Street  Railway  Employes  of  America. 

Worcester  Division  No.  22  of  the  Amalgamated  Association  of 

fiof      ^u^^^.^"'^^^^''  of  America  was  organized  March   8th, 
l«y^,  with  a  charter  membership  of  twenty-five.     The   following 
members  were  elected  officers  in  this  division:     President,  Jno.  J 
Murphy;  Vice-president,  D.  J.Sullivan;  Recording  Secretary,  H  l' 
Tourville;  Financial  Secretary,  Geo.  Mansfield;  Treasurer,  Thos  B 
(ilennon. 

The  above  named  officers,  under  the  able  presidency  of  Jno  J 
Murphy,  set  about  to  advance  the  cause  of  organized  labor    and 
more  particularly  to  further  the  advancement  of  Division  No  22 
and  their  efforts  for  each  succeeding  day  added  fresh  support  to  their 
cause  and  increased  membership  to  their  body.     Brother  Murphy 


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was  re-elected  to  succeed  himself  for  a  second  term  as  presiding 
officer.  Encouraged  with  a  triple  membership  the  new  board  of 
officers  took  up  with  earnestness  and  zeal  the  progressive  work 
handed  down  by  their  brother  officers,  and  continued  with  voice  and 
example  to  each  better  his  own  condition  and  help  their  brother 

employes. 

During  the  six  years  of  its  existence  Division  22  has  made  rapid 
strides  up  the  ladder  of  fame,  and  to-day  stands  pre-eminent  among 
the  leading  labor  organizations  of  the  commonwealth.  Not  only 
has  her  membership  increased  in  great  numbers,  but  the  objects  of 
its  organization  have  been  realized  many  times  in  the  settlement  of 
disputes  between  employers  and  employes.  It  is  also  affiliated  with 
the  Central  Labor  Union  and  American  Federation  of  Labor.  In  a 
social  manner  it  ranks  in  high  position.  Each  autumn  the  public, 
also  the  members,  look  forward  with  pleasure  to  the  annual  ball 
given  by  Division  22,  Mechanics  Hall,  with  a  seating  capacity  of 
two  thousand,  being  inadequate  to  supply  the  wants  desired.  Never- 
theless, the  merry  dancers,  satisfied  with  a  little  space,  trip  tlie  light 
fantastic  until  morn',  breaking  up  with  a  hearty  cheer  for  the  street 
railway  boys  of  Worcester. 

The  following  are  the  leading  officers  for  the  present  term  :  Presi- 
dent, E.  T.  Hastings;  Vice-president,  Edward  J.  Burke;  Treasurer, 
John  S.  O'Brien;  Financial  Secretary,  W.  F.  Kewley ;  Recording 
Secretary,  Jas.  E.  Sweeney.  As  presiding  officer  and  counsellor, 
President  Hastings  is  filling  the  high  position  for  the  third  consecu- 
tive  term,  which  bears  out  the  issue  that  success  and  harmony  pre- 
vails and  that  with  a  present  membership  of  nearly  two  hundred 
striving  in  unison  one  with  another  naught  but  continued  success  is 
their  future. 


Core  Makers*  International  Union  of  America,  Local  15. 

PREAMr.LE. 

Human  events  have  clearly  shown  that  it  is  at  all  times  necessary 
for  communities  to  act  collectively  for  the  purpose  of  removing  such 
obstructions  as  impeded  their  progress,  prosperity  and  success  in 
life.  The  past  has  taught  us,  the  present  claims,  and  the  future 
demands  that  we,  the  Core  Makers,  should  act  upon  the  universally 
conceded  doctrine  that  self-preservation  is  the  first  law  of  nature; 


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133 


and  acting  upon  and  accepting  the  same,  we  do  solemnly  unite  our- 
selves in  unity  to  prevent  by  all  lawful  means  encroachments  upon 
us  individually  and  our  interests  collectively. 

With  every  confidence  in  the  justice  of  our  cause,  we  mutually 
pledge  ourselves  to  support  our  Constitution,  believing  that  it  forms 
the  basis  that  will  finally  secure  to  us  the  consummation  of  the  end 
desired. 


National  Brotherhood   Electrical  Workers  of  America. 

PREAMBLE. 

In  this  great  age  of  invention  men  are  so  likely  to  be  dazed  by 
the  material  splendor  which  surrounds  them  that  they  forget  the 
wage  worker  whose  labor  has  produced  it,  and  as  a  consequence  the 
men  who  have  placed  our  country  foremost  in  material  and  intel- 
lectual progress  are  poorer  to-day  than  ever  before.     And   in  this 
respect  none  have  suffered  more  than  the  electrical  workers— the 
men  who  have  carried  the  telegraph  lines  from  ocean  to  ocean,  who 
wove  the  web  of  telephone  wires  in  every  city  and  town,  who  erected 
the   lights   that   transform    night   into   day,    who   constructed  the 
machines  and  instruments  by  which  this  has  been  accomplished, 
who  risk  their  lives  daily  that  the  community  may  have  light,  newsi 
easy  communication  and  protection,   have  been  reduced  year   by 
year  from  their  rightful  position  among  mechanics,  until  to-day,  both 
in  wages  and  social  standing,  they  are  lower  than  any  other  trade 
requiring  no  greater  amount  of  skill  or  manual  effort,  and  for  want 
of  a  strict  apprentice  system  the  trade  literally  swarms  with  unskilled 
men;  while  everywhere  in  the  blind,  senseless  competition  for  work, 
cheapness  has  almost  become  the  prevalent  rule,  to  the  detriment 
alike  of  the  employers  and  journeymen,  to  the  injury  and  danger  of 
the  public,  and  to  the  ruin  and  degradation  of  our  trade. 

Therefore  we,  the  Electrical  Workers  of  America,  in  convention 
assembled,  having  seen  the  necessity  of  a  thorough  organization  of 
our  trade,  and  believing  that  a  common  cause  and  universal  sym- 
pathy should  exist  among  all  electrical  workers,  have  formed  this 
National  Brotherhood,  having  for  its  object  the  elevation  of  our 
social  and  moral  standing,  not  only  among  other  branches  of  indus- 
try, but  in  the  community  at  large,  and  the  advancement  of  the 
material  interests  of  our  craft,  believing  as  we  do  that  it  will  serve 
our  employers  while  it  also  elevates  our  own  condition. 


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We  earnestly  invite  all  men  belonging  to  our  trade  to  come  for- 
ward, join  our  ranks  and  help  increase  our  numbers  until  such  time 
as  there  shall  be  no  man  working  at  our  trade  outside  of  our  Brother- 
hood, and  as  eternal  vigilance  is  the  price  of  liberty,  so  is  a  close 
attention  to  the  duties  of  our  Brotherhood,  the  protection  of  our 
natural  interests,  a  duty  all  the  more  compulsory  on  us  as  our  stand- 
ing among  our  fellow  mechanics  demands  that  we  shall  not  be  back- 
ward in  bringing  our  trade  to  an  equal  standing  with  that  of  any 
other  in  the  land.  And  we  know  of  no  other  means  to  accomplish 
this  than  by  organization.  Therefore,  it  is  the  imperative  duty  of 
each  electrical  worker  to  do  all  in  his  power  to  organize  the  men  of 
his  craft,  and  thus  place  ourselves  in  the  material,  social  and  moral 
position  to  which  the  dignity  of  our  trade  entitles  us. 


Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters  and  Helpers  No.  25. 

PREAMBLE. 

The  objects  and  aims  of  the  National  Association  are  the  propa- 
tion  of  branches  in  all  cities  and  towns  of  America  for  mutual  im- 
provement and  affiliation,  for  the  protection,  co-operation  and  edu- 
cation of  all  members  in  particular,  and  the  trade  in  general.  We 
believe  the  only  manner  in  which  this  can  be  accomplished  is  by 
agitating  the  subject  of  organization  among  the  Steam  Fitters  and 
Helpers  throughout  the  country,  and  endeavoring  by  that  means 
to  elevate  the  trade  to  its  proper  standing,  thereby  gaining  the  respect 
of  all. 

In  the  case  of  Helpers  we  earnestly  recommend  that  they  should 
have  distinct  organizations  of  their  own  in  all  cities  and  towns, 
under  the  same  conditions  as  Steam  Fitters  have.  And  we  believe 
that  their  affiliation  with  this  body  would  be  of  great  advantage  in 
many  ways,  and  much  good  would  arise  from  their  mutual  aid  and 
support. 

Molders'  Union  No.  5. 

Iron  Molders'  Union  No.  5  was  organized  in  1862,  and  as  its  num- 
ber signifies  was  one  of  the  first  locals  to  become  organized  in  this 
country.  It  was  reorganized  in  1890,  and  at  the  present  time  is  one 
of  the  most  vigorous  locals  in  New  England.  The  object  of  our 
Union  is  to  promote  our  craft  interests;  instruct  apprentices  that 
our  membership  should  always  be  composed  of  skilled  workmen; 


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care  for  our  members  in  sickness  and  death,  and  advance  our  condi- 
tion socially  and  intellectually.  The  organization  has  earned  the 
respect  of  all  fair  minded  foundrymen,  and  if  the  successes  of  the 
past  are  an  indication  of  the  future  it  will  prove  its  ability  not  only 
to  protect  craft  interests,  but  to  place  its  members  on  a  higher  social 
plane.  Its  officers  are:  President,  J.  S.  Gale;  Vice-President,  J.  P. 
F.  Frey;  Recording  Secretary,  James  Carey;  Financial  Secretary, 
Donald  Smith;  Corresponding  Secretary,  D.  C.  Sullivan;  Treasurer, 
Louis  Lovely;  Inductor,  Jeremiah  Connoly;  Sergeant-at-Arms, 
James  Bancroft. 

Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters  and  Helpers  No.  25. 

In  1891  the  members  of  the  craft  recognizing  the  fact  that  their 
trade  needed  something  done  to  better  their  condition,  the  steam 
fitters  got  together  and  formed  a  Union,  in  October,  and  affiliated 
with  the  United  Association  of  U.  S.  &  C,  and  the  State  Branch 
Federation  of  Labor  of  Massachusetts,  under  these  officers:  Presi- 
dent, John  B.  Lamothe;  Vice-President,  W.  H.  Ronayn;  Financial 
Secretary,  John  F.  Cooney;  Recording  Secretary,  W.  White;  Trea- 
surer, M.  H.  Logan.     The  number  of  our  charter  was  known  as  42. 

In  November,  1893,  the  Steam  Fitters  withdrew  from  the  U.  S.  of 
U.  S.  &  C.  and  joined  the  N.  A.  of  Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters 
and  Helpers  of  America,  under  the  following  officers:  President,  J. 
M.  Cummings;  Vice-President,  J.  G.  Lamothe;  Recording  Secretary, 
A.  Fish;  Financial  Secretary,  Jos.  Curran;  Treasurer,  M.  H.  Logan  ; 
Insp.,  M.  D.  Holmes;  Guard,  J.  J.  Scanlan. 

In  June,  1894,  the  Union  disbanded,  and  reorganized  in  October, 
1895,  under  the  following  officers:  President,  J.  M.  Cummings; 
Vice-President,  John  Callahan;  Recording  Secretary,  John  Kelly; 
Financial  Secretary,  J.  B.  Lamothe;  Treasurer,  M.  H.  Logan;  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  W.  S.  Chase;  Insp.,  Thos.  Meehan;  Guard,  J. 
J.  Scan  Ion.  Including  officers  there  were  twenty  charter  members. 
Number  of  charter  25. 

In  April,  1896,  we  were  granted  a  nine-hour  day,  without  a  strug- 
gle. The  Union  is  affiliated  with  the  C.  L.  U.  and  the  Building 
Trades  Council  of  this  city,  and  is  now  considering  the  advisability 
of  affiliating  with  the  National  Building  Trades  Council. 

The  Union  has  taken  a  great  interest  in  public  building  heating, 
especially  in  schools,  and  it  is  still  working  on  every-day  facts  to 
present  to  the  public  in  the  near  future. 


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"John  B.  Lamothe,  member  of  the  Steam  Fitters'  Union  of  Wor- 
cester, who  represented  the  Union  at  the  convention  of  building  in- 
spectors in  Boston,  made  his  report  at  a  meeting  of  the  organization 
September  15,  1899,  at  labor  headquarters. 

"  Mr.  Lamothe  attended  the  convention  to  learn  the  opinions  of 
inspectors  throughout  the  country  on  the  methods  of  heating  public 
buildings.  The  Worcester  Union  is  at  the  head  of  a  movement  to 
have  all  schoolhouses  in  Worcester  equipped  with  steam  heating, 
claiming  for  the  system  that  it  assures  the  best  ventilation  and  con- 
ditions. 

"  Mr.  Lamothe  reported  that  it  was  the  unanimous  opinion  of  the 
inspectors  that  the  best  system  of  heating  in  public  buildings  is 
steam  or  hot  water.  He  said  he  was  unable  to  find  any  one  who 
favored  the  furnace  system  of  heating  buildings.  This  is  the  sys- 
tem used  in  most  of  the  school  buildings  in  Worcester." 

In  August,  1898,  there  was  held  in  Boston  a  convention  of  Public 
Building  Inspectors  of  the  United  States  and  Canada.  The  Union 
thought  of  sending  a  delegate  to  get  the  different  opinions  of  the 
delegates  on  heating  schools  and  other  public  buildings. 

The  Union  holds  its  meetings  every  first  and  third  Fridays  in 
each  month,  in  labor  headquarters,  68  Southbridge  street.  The  first 
meeting  was  held  in  September,  1898. 

At  a  meeting  of  Worcester  Steam  Fitters'  Union,  September  15, 
1899,  the  subject  of  school  house  heating  and  ventilation  was  dis- 
cussed. Such  facts  and  evidence  were  submitted  by  the  members  to 
warrant  them  in  drafting  a  resolution  addressed  to  city  officials  in 
charge  of  this  branch  of  work,  which  they  hope  will  lead  to  a  thor- 
ough investigation  as  to  why  so  many  school  house  contracts  have 
been  awarded,  with  little  or  no  competition,  for  warming  and  ven- 
tilating by  the  hot-air  or  furnace  system. 

The  association  believes  that  Worcester  desires  to  be  as  progressive 
and  up-to-date  as  any  New  England  city  in  improvement. 

It  has  been  demonstrated,  not  only  in  Boston,  but  in  Worcester, 
that  the  proper  and  most  successful  method  of  heating  schools,  even 
of  the  smallest  size,  is  by  steam,  either  by  gravity  or  by  means  of 
the  fan  system.  Either  system  gives  a  more  positive  result,  both  as 
to  the  quality  of  the  air  introduced  and  as  to  the  volume  obtained 
under  similar  atmospheric  conditions. 

The  usual  practice  heretofore  in  Worcester  in  using  furnaces,  has 


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been  either  in  small  houses  of  four  rooms  or  less,  or  where  the  school 
was  located  in  some  remote  part  of  the  city  where  proper  attention 
could  not  be  obtained  for  the  more  modern  apparatus. 

Many  of  the  older  school  buildings  were  originally  heated  and 
ventilated  by  furnaces,  and  it  has  been  the  custom  of  the  city 
officials,  up  to  and  within  the  last  year,  to  replace  these  hot-air  fur- 
naces by  modern  steam  systems,  such  as  are  in  use  in  the  more  mod- 
ern buildings. 

The  association  consequently  agrees,  in  the  face  of  convincing 
facts,  that  there  certainly  must  be  some  other  reason  than  the  rela- 
tive merits  of  the  old  furnace  and  new  steam  system  of  heating  and 
ventilating  our  public  buildings,  to  induce  our  officials  to  be  obliged 
to  go  to  Boston  for  the  work  in  question,  even  when  it  is  well  known 
that  such  systems  will  not  be  tolerated  there,  and  therefore  have 
decided  to  submit  these  resolutions  to  the  city : 

Resolved,  That  this  association  respectfully  submits  to  the  officials 
of  the  city  of  Worcester,  having  in  charge  the  selection  and  adoption 
of  the  heating  and  ventilating  apparatus  for  our  public  schools,  a 
request  that  they  thoroughly  investigate  the  relative  merits  of  the 
several  systems  of  heating  appliances,  with  a  view  of  selecting  the 
best  and  most  modern  for  adoption  in  the  city  schools;  that  the  city 
patronize  home  industry  in  awarding  contracts  for  this  work  in  so 
far  as  it  is  able,  without  detriment  to  itself;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  they  investigate  why  it  is  that  other  cities  in  New 
England  have  discarded  the  hot  air  furnace  and  adopted  steam. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  Mavor, 
with  a  request  that  he  bring  the  matter  before  the  city  government. 

In  1896  the  Union  sent  a  delegate  to  the  National  Convention 
held  in  Boston,  from  which  he  returned  Vice-President.  The  dele- 
gate was  W.  B.  Janes.  The  Union  has  no  funds,  owing  to  its  prodi- 
gality in  assisting  the  distressed.  The  Union  is  composed  of  the 
best  workmen.  It  has  an  examining  board  composed  of  five  of  its 
members.  Candidates  must  answer  satisfactory ly  before  admitted 
to  the  Union.  The  Union  has  a  working  card  and  a  traveling  card, 
and  by-laws  and  rules  and  regulations  governing  the  same. 

The  officers  for  the  first  six  months  in  1899  were:  President, 
John  B.  Lamothe;  Vice-President,  E.  M.  G.  Davis  (was  elected  Pres- 
ident for  the  second  term  of  the  year,  or  the  last  six  months);  Re- 
cording Secretary,  W.  S.  Chase;  Financial  Secretary,  Jas.  G.  La- 
mothe; Treasurer,  M.  D.  Holmes;  Insp.,  M.  H.  Logan;  Guard,  John 
Drohan. 


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QenerAl  SecreUry  of  the  Central  Labor  Union. 


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Secretary.Treasurer  of  the  Central  Labor  Union. 


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Nails,  Builders'  Hardware  and  Materials. 

MECHANICS'    TOOLS  "vJJTr'k'^XKi^Ks 

and  Kindred  Trades.     A  full  line  of  Brown  &  5harpe  Manfg.  Co.  and  L.  5. 
5tarrett  Co.  Machinists'  tools  carried  in  Stock. 

Fairbanks'   Platform  and  Counter  Scales,    Lawn   Mowers,   Screen 

Cloth,  Cordage  and  Tackle  Blocks. 


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President  of  the  Building:  Trades  Council. 


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and  Kindred  Trades.     A  full  line  of  Brown  &  Sharpe  Manfg;.  Co.  and  L.  5. 
Starrett  Co.  Machinists'  tools  carried   in  Stock. 

Fairbanks'    Platform  and  Counter   Scales,    Lawn    Mowers,    Screen 

Cloth,  Cordage  and  Tackle  Blocks. 


189  FRONT  ST., 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY. 
President  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 


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Hill 

Clothes 

Dryer. 


More  than  100,000   in  Use. 
Pleasins:  Everybody. 

Both  Yard  aad  Balcooy  Dryers 

Fold  Them  Up  Without  Removing  Clothes-line  and  Take  Indoor*  When  Not  in  Use. 

Insist  Upon  Having:  Your  House  and  Apartments  Equipped  With  a 

HILL  DRYER  by  Your  Landlord. 


SOLD    BV  THE    HRRDVl^nRE  TRKDE. 


Manufactured  only  by 


HIL-L    DRYER    COTV^PKNY, 

344  PARK  AVE..  NA/ORCESTER.  MASS. 


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JOHN  B.  LAMOTHE, 
Vice-President  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 


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Pleasing  Everybody. 

Both  Yard  and  Balcony  Dryers 

Fold  Them  Up  Without  Removing:  Clothes-line  and  Take  Indoors  When  Not  In  Use. 

Insist  Upon  Having  Your  House  and  Apartments  Equipped   With  a 

HILL  DRYER  by  Your  Landlord. 

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Manufactured  only  by 

HILL    DRYER    COTV^PKNY, 

344   PARK  AVE.,  NA/ORCESTER.  MASS. 


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JOHN  B.  LAMOTHE, 
Vice-President  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 


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Walter  J.  Stone,  Pres. 


Marcns  I,.  Poster,  Treas. 


Stone  &  Foster 

LUMBER  COMPANY, 


WholcMle  and  Retail 


LiUlMlBlElRl 


KND  DRKIN  PIPB. 

VHHDS:     COR.    CENTRKL.    HND     UNION     STR 

WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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ALBERT  H.  KNIQHT, 
Recording  Secretory  of  tlie  building  Trades  Council. 


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Walter  J.  Stone,  Pres. 


Marcus  I,.  Foster.  Treas. 


Stone  &  Fo5ter 

LUMBER  COMPANY, 


Wholesale  and  Retail 


LUMBER 


T^ND  DRMIN  PIPE. 

YT^RDS:     COR.    CENTRT^L    MISD     UNION     STREETS. 

WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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ALBERT  H.  KNIGHT, 
Recording  Secretary  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 


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HARDWARE, 


Cutlery  and  Tools. 

AGENTS  FOR 

FAIRBANKS  AND  BUFFALO  SCALES. 

We  Carry  a  Full  Line  of 

BUILDERS'  SUPPLIES. 

Also  as  grood  an  assortment  of  finest  line  of 

Door  and   Window  Trimmings  as  can  be  found  in 

New  England. 


We   sell   the   celebrated    •♦IMPERIAL"   and    •♦PHILADELPHIA"    LAWN 
MOWERS,  which  are  the  BEST  In  the  market. 


RUBBER  HOSE 

All  sizes  and  fully  warranted.  Lowest  Prices. 

DUNCAN  &  flOODELL  CO., '"'  r^'^^k..  „*ss. 


W.  H.  Willard  &  Co.. 

HARDWARE. 


Manufacturers'  Supplies, 


Maciiinists  Tools  and  Cutlery. 


Agents  for  the 


AMERICAN  STEEL  PULLEY, 


S2Q  TW^HIN  STRE 


PRT^NKLIN  SQUT^RE. 


WORCESTER,  MASS 


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CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA,  No.  23. 


A.  D.  SIMONS, 
President. 


PATRICK  DEMPSEY, 
Vice-President. 


JOHN  J.  McNULTY, 
Treasurer. 


153 


ALBERT  H.  KNIGHT, 
Recording  .Secretary. 


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HARDWARE, 


Cutlery  and  Tools. 

AGENTS  FOR 

FAIRBANKS  AND  BUFFALO  SCALES. 

We  Carry  a  Full  Line  of 

BUILDERS'  SUPPLIES, 

Also  85  good  an  assortment  of  finest  line  of 

Door  and   Window  Trimmings  as  can  be  found  in 

New  England. 

We   sell    the   celebrated    *«liVlPERIAL'»    and    •'PHILADELPHIA^'     LAWN 
MOWERS,  which  are  the  BEST  in  the  market. 

All  sizes  and  fully  warranted.  Lowest  Prices. 

DUNCAN  &  GOODELL  CO.,  *"  r^?e7^e,. ««. 


W.  H.  Willard  &  Co., 

HARDWARE. 


Manufacturers'  Supplies, 


Machinists  Tools  and  Cutlery. 


Agents  for  the 


AMERICAN  STEEL  PULLEY, 


529  TVTT^IN   STREET.   F^RKNKLIIS   SQUKRE, 

WORCESTER.  MASS 


CAKPENTEKS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA,  No.  iiS. 


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A.  D.  SIMONS, 
President. 


PATRICK  DHMPSEY, 
Vice-President. 


152 


JOHN  J.  McNUl,TV, 
Trea.surer. 


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ALBERT  H.  KNIGHT, 
Recording  Secretary. 


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CIGABMAKEBS*  UNION  No.  92. 


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JEFFERSON  D.  PIERCE, 
President. 


FREDERICK  A.  DEITMAR. 
Treasurer. 


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JKFFKRSON  D.  PIERCE. 
President. 


FREDERICK  A.  DEITMAR. 
Treasurer. 


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FRANCIS  PATRICK  A.  GII^CHRIST, 
President. 


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J.  W.  MARA, 
Corresponding  Representative. 


AI^BERT  EARNEST  NEEDHAM, 
Recording  Secretary. 


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JOHN  CROAKE, 
Treasurer. 


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FRANCIS  PATRICK  A.  (IILCHRIST, 
President. 


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J.  W.  MARA. 

Corresponding  Representative. 


ALBERT  EARNEST  NEEDHAM. 
Recording  Secretary. 


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JOHN  CKOAKE, 
Treasurer. 


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IRON  MOLDERS»  UNION  No.  5. 


DONALD  SMITH, 
Financial  Secretarj'. 


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Financial  Secretary. 


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WILUAM  CROSBIE. 
Recording  Secretary. 


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Recording  Secretary. 


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PLUMBERS'  UXION  No.  4. 


THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY, 
President. 


JOHN  JOSEPH  ROONEY, 
Vice-President. 


CHARI^ES  CI^ARK, 
Recording  Secretary. 


MICHAEI.  J.  McNUI^TY, 
Board  of  Directors. 


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THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY. 
President. 


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JOHN  JOSEPH  ROONEY, 
Vice-President. 


CHARI^ES  CI^ARK, 
Recording  Secretary. 


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Board  of  Directors. 


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THE  BRUNELLE 

STEAM  OR  HOT  WATER  HEATER. 


STEAM  AND  HOT  WATER  FITTERS'  AND  HELPERS'  No.  25. 


SRECFTTLLV  DESIGNED 
F=^OR  lA^HRTtfTING     ^    ^    ^    4» 

Private  Residences  in  City  or  Country, 

Hotels,  Stores,  Schools,  Churches,  Club  Houses, 

Theatres,  Apartment  Houses,  Greenhouses, 

Manufactories,  Business  Blocks  and  Public  Buildings 

By  low  pressure  steam,  or  from  the  vapor  heat  thrown  off  from 
water  at  or  below  the  boiling  point. 

It  is  by  this  method  of  heating  that  the  greatest  possible  economy  of  fuel  is 
realized  in  actual  use,  and  at  the  same  time  just  that  volume  of  heat  actually  re- 
quired to  carry  comfortable  temperature  in-doors  is  obtained,  whether  the  weather 
be  mild  or  cold. 

P.  X.  BRUNELLE, 

SOLE  Ttf^y^ISUF^TTCTURER, 

10  COBURN  AVENUE.  WORCESTER.  MASS. 

166 


EBBN  M.  J.  DAVIS, 
President. 


MICHAEI«  F.  GARRETT, 
President. 


JOSEPH  G.  I.AMOTHE, 
Financial  Secretary, 


J.  B. 

I.AMOTHE. 

Ex-President. 

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Recording  Secretary. 


MARTIN  D.  HOI^MES. 
Treasurer. 


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THE  BRUNELLE 

STEAM  OR  HOT  WATER  HEATER. 


STEAM  AND  HOT  WATER  FITTERS'  AND  HELPERS'  No.  25. 


SPEOTHLLV  DESIGNED 
F^OR  Aa£HR7VVING     ^    4fe    j»     » 

Private  Residences  in  City  or  Country, 

Hotels,  Stores,  Schools,  Churches,  Club  Houses, 

Theatres,  Apartment  Houses,  Greenhouses, 

Manufactories,  Business  Blocks  and  Public  Buildings 

By  low  pressure  steam,  or  from  the  vapor  lieat  thrown  off  from 
water  at  or  below  the  boiling  point. 

It  is  by  this  method  of  heating  that  the  greatest  possible  economy  of  fuel  is 
realized  in  actual  use,  and  at  the  same  time  just  that  volume  of  heat  actually  re- 
quired to  carrv  comfortable  temperature  in-doors  is  obtained,  whether  the  weather 
be  mild  or  cold. 

F.  X.  BRUNELLE, 

10  COBURN  AVENUE.  WORCESTER.  MASS. 

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EBEN  M.  J.  DAVIS, 
President. 


MICH.\KI.  F.  GARRKTT, 
President. 


JOSKPH  G.  I^AMOTHE, 
Financial  Secretary. 


J.  B.  I,  A  MOTH  f:. 
F'x-President. 


w.  s.  chasf:, 

Recording  Secretary. 


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MARTIN  D.  HOI^MES, 
Treasurer. 


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STBRKS,  OHORS.  ST^LTTPg. 


Broiled  Live  Lobster  a  Specialty. 


PARKER'S    RESTAURANT, 


OPBN  DKV  KND  NIGHT, 


Telephone  669-6. 


29  WASHINGTON  SQ. 


Close  to  Union  Station. 


DOUGLASS  d  GALVIN 
DINING  ROOTV^S, 

12  WASHINGTON  SQUARE,  -  -  WORCESTER.  MASS. 


OPEN    PROTV^   6   7K.   7M^.   TO   S.   P.   TK. 


REGUL-KR   DINN©R  2S  OEISTS. 


Board  and  Rooms, 
$4.00  to  Is.oea  Week. 


21  Meal  Ticket,  I3.00. 
6  Dinner  Ticket,  |i.oo. 


THE  NEW  WEST  SIDE  GROCERY, 


C.  W.  WATTS,  Prop. 


ISl   1-2   PLEKSKNT  STREer. 


FINe  SeLECTOD  GROceRies 

FLOUR  OF  ALL  GRADES, 

Pure  Tew,  Coffees  and  Spices.  Choice  Syrup  and  Molasses,  Fresh  Butter  and  Cheese  from  best 
Vermont  and  N.  Y.  Dairies,  Choice  Fruit  and  VegeUbles  in  Season. 


Orders  Solicited. 


Goods  Delivered  Promptly. 


168 


STREET  RAILWAY  EMPLOYES  OF  AMERICA, 

DIVISION  No.  22. 


EDMUND  T.  HASTINGS, 
President. 


EDWARD  G.  BURKE, 
Vice-President. 


JOHN  S.  O'BRIEN, 
Treasurer. 

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JAS.  EDWARD  SWEENEY, 
Corresponding  Secretary. 


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STBHKS.  CHORS.  S73CL7TDS. 


Broiled  Live  Lobster  a  Specialty. 


PARKER'S   RESTAURANT. 


OPEN   DKV  KND   NIGHT, 


Telephone  659-6. 


29  WASHINGTON  SQ. 


Close  to  Union  Station. 


DOUGLASS  d  GALVIN 
DINING  R007VYS, 


12  WASHINGTON  SQUARE, 


WORCESTER.  MASS. 


OPEN    PROTW   6   n.   TVK.   TO   S.    P.   7VT. 


RECULKR   DINlseR  25  CENTS. 


Board  and  Rooms, 
$4.00  to  15.00a  Week. 


21    Meal  Ticket.  53.00. 
f>  Dinner  Ticket.  |i.oo. 


THE  NEW  WEST  SIDE  GROCERY, 


C.  W.  WATTS,  Prop. 


ISl   1-2   RUEKSKNT  STREET. 


FINe  SeLECTOD  GRoceRies 

FLOUR  OF  ALL  GRADES, 

Pure  Teas,  Coffees  and  Spices.  Choice  Syrup  and  Molasses.  Fresh  Butter  and  Cheese  from  best 
Vermont  and  N.  Y.  Dairies.  Choice  Fruit  and  VeseUbles  in  Season. 


Orders  Solicited. 


Goods  Delivered  Promptly. 


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STREET  RAILWAY  EMPLOYES  OF  AMERICA, 

DIVISION  No.  22. 


EDWARD  G.  BURKK. 
Vice- Pre.si  dent. 


EDMUND  T.  H.\STINGS, 
President. 


JOHN  S.  O'BRIEN, 
Treasurer. 


JAS.  EDWARD  SWEENEY, 
Corresponding  Secretary. 


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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


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CENTRAL  LABOR  UNION. 

Jefferson  D.  Pierce,  President  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  of  Wor- 
cester, Mass.,  was  born  in  Thompson,  Conn.,  May  21st,  1862.  His 
early  occupation  was  that  of  a  cigar  maker,  and  is  still  following 
that  vocation.  He  joined  Cigar  Makers'  Union  No.  92  in  the  year 
1885,  and  after  passing  through  all  the  chairs  was  elected  President 


JEFFERSON  D.  PIERCE. 
President  of  the  Central  Labor  Union. 

of  the  same,  and  is  now  serving  in  that  capacity.  He  is  also  a  dele- 
gate from  his  local  to  the  Central  Labor  Union. 

Mr.  Pierce  for  two  years  was  Vice-President  of  the  Massachusetts 
State  Federation  of  Labor,  and  for  four  years  has  been  its  President. 

The  presidency  of  an  organization  is  an  office  difficult  to  fill. 
Each  of  the  many  and  varied  interests  demands  the  most  careful 
attention,  and  it  is  only  by  the  exercise  of  constant  vigilance  that 
the  executive  of  an  organization  can  hope  to  make  a  creditable 
record.     If  this  be  true  of  a  single  society,  how  much  more  so  .is  it 


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CENTRAL  LABOR  UNION. 

Jefferson  D.  Pierce,  President  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  of  Wor- 
cester, Mass.,  was  born  in  Thompson,  Conn.,  May  21st,  1802.  His 
early  occupation  was  that  of  a  cigar  maker,  and  is  still  following 
that  vocation.  He  joined  Cigar  Makers'  Union  No.  92  in  the  year 
1885,  and  after  passing  through  all  the  chairs  was  elected  President 


JBFFERSON  D.  PIERCE, 
President  of  the  Central  Labor  Union. 

of  the  same,  and  is  now  serving  in  that  capacity.     He  is  also  a  dele- 
gate from  his  local  to  the  Central  Labor  Union. 

Mr.  Pierce  for  two  years  was  Vice-President  of  the  xMassachusetts 
State  Federation  of  Labor,  and  for  four  years  has  been  its  President. 
^  The  presidency  of  an  organization  is  an  office  difficult  to  fill. 
Each  of  the  many  and  varied  interests  demands  the  most  careful 
attention,  and  it  is  only  by  the  exercise  of  constant  vigilance  that 
the  executive  of  an  organization  can  hope  to  make  a  creditable 
record.     If  this  be  true  of  a  single  society,  how  much  more  so  is  it 


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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


173 


applicable  in  the  case  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  of  Worcester  an 
organization  with  which  many  labor  organizations  are  affiliated  '  It 
IS  an  office,  the  holder  of  which,  to  be  successful,  must  have  a  cos- 
mopolitan idea  of  all  shades  of  character  and  temperament.     It  is 
an  office,  the  character  of  the  holder  of  which  must  be  above  reproach 
and  who  must  possess  firmness  and  stability  which  will  carry  him 
through  the  trying  emergencies  which  are  liable  to  arise  at  any  time 
It  is  but  due  and  fitting  to  state,  apropos  of  the  remarkable  ad- 
vance made  in  the  ranks  of  the  various  Worcester  unions,  that  much 
of  what  has  been  accomplished  is  due  to  this  gentleman's  untiring 
efforts  in  their  behalf.     He  has  served  his  fellow  men  with  unswerv- 
ing loyalty,  and  his  long  and  unremitting  struggle  in  the  interest  of 
the  working  classes  has  made  for  him  a  name  that  shines  as  a  beacon 
light  to  stimulate  those  who  aspire  for  honor.     Diligent,  energetic 
untiring  and  faithful  to  all  the  interests  of  his  fellow  craftsmen   he 
leaves  nothing  undone  that  should  be  done  and  avoids  those  things 
that  ought  not  to  be  done.     Broad  in  his  views  he  sees  at  a  glance 
and  far  ahead  things  that  have  taken  others  years  to  grasp.     He  is 
not  blinded  by  the  apparent  wants  and  demands  of  the  present,  but 
looks  beyond  to  the  far  reaching  demands  of  the  future,  and  things 
that  are  dimly  described  on  the  horizon  by  some  are  clearly  seen 
and  provided  for  by  him.     This  is   manifest   to   those   who  have 
watched  the  progress  of  his  career  and  the  manv  victories  he  has 
won  for  the  cause  of  labor.     For  a  man  of  his  years  he  is  gifted  with 
an  unusually  keen  insight  into  the  discernment  of  human  nature. 
Confident  in  his  own  acquirements  and  judgment,  and  well  equipped 
with  the  knowledge  of  his  official  duties  he  takes  a  prompt  and  firm 
stand  upon  all  questions  affecting  the  welfare  of  his  varied  organi- 
zations.    It  need  scarcely  be  said  that  he  enjoys  to  the  fullest  extent 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  members  of  organized  labor,  both 
at  home  and  abroad,  for  his  uniformly  successful  career  justly  merits 
that  implicit  confidence  and  high  esteem  ever  accorded  an  honest 
official. 

No  man  in  Worcester  is  better  known  to  the  various  delegates  and 
leading  men  in  the  different  labor  organizations.  His  work  as  Presi- 
dent  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  has  brought  him  into  contact  with 
all  of  them,  and  that  his  efforts  in  that  office  have  proven  satisfac- 
tory is  attested  by  the  fact  of  his  repeated  election.  Mr.  Pierce  is 
married  and  resides  at  92  Maywood  street. 


Edmund  T.  Hastings,  the  Vice-President  of  the  Central  Labor 
Union,  was  born  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  on  July  24th,  1846.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  Amalgamated  Association  of  Street  Rail- 
way Employes  of  America,  Division  22,  February  2d,  1894,  and  on 
December  17th,  1897,  was  elected  its  President,  and  is  now  serving 


EDMUND  T.  HASTINGS. 
Vice-President  of  tlie  Central  Lat>or  Union. 


his  third  term  as  such.     He  was  at  one  time  its  Secretary,  and  is 
now  a  delegate  from  his  local  to  the  C.  L.  U. 

Mr.  Hastings  is  also  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Consolidated  Relief  Association,  and  was  elected  president  January 
4th,  1899.  He  has  also  served  for  eight  years  as  Secretary  of  the 
Worcester  Reform  Club.  He  is  married  and  resides  at  9  Goulding 
street. 


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applicable  m  the  case  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  of  Worcester  an 
organization  with  which  many  labor  organizations  are  affiliated  '  It 
IS  an  office,  the  holder  of  which,  to  be  successful,  must  have  a  cos- 
mopolitan idea  of  all  shades  of  character  and  temperament      It  is 
an  office,  the  character  of  the  holder  of  which  must  be  above  reproach 
and  who  must  possess  firmness  and  stabilitv  which  will  carry  him 
through  the  trying  emergencies  which  are  liable  to  arise  at  any  time 
It  is  but  due  and  fitting  to  state,  apropos  of  the  remarkable  ad- 
vance made  in  the  ranks  of  the  various  Worcester  unions,  that  much 
of  what  has  been  accomplished  is  due  to  this  gentleman's  untiring 
efforts  in  their  behalf.     He  has  served  his  fellow  men  with  unswerv- 
ing loyalty,  and  his  long  and  unremitting  struggle  in  the  interest  of 
the  working  classes  has  made  for  him  a  name  that  shines  as  a  beacon 
light  to  stimulate  those  who  aspire  for  honor.     Diligent,  energetic 
untiring  and  faithful  to  all  the  interests  of  his  fellow  craftsmen   he 
leaves  nothing  undone  that  should  be  done  and  avoids  those  things 
that  ought  not  to  be  done.     Hroad  in  his  views  he  sees  at  a  glance 
and  far  ahead  things  that  have  taken  others  years  to  grasp.     He  is 
not  blinded  by  the  apparent  wants  and  demands  of  the  present  but 
looks  beyond  to  the  far  reaching  demands  of  the  future,  and  things 
that  are  dimly  described  on  the  horizon  by  some  are  clearly  seen 
and  provided  for  by  him.     This  is    manifest   to   those    who  have 
watched  the  progress  of  his  career  and  the  manv  victories  he  has 
won  for  the  cause  of  labor.     For  a  man  of  his  years  he  is  gifted  with 
an  unusually  keen  insight  into  the  discernment  of  human  nature 
Confident  in  his  own  acquirements  and  judgment,  and  well  equipped 
with  the  knowledge  of  his  official  duties  he  takes  a  prompt  and  firm 
stand  upon  all  questions  affecting  the  welfare  of  his  varied  organi- 
zations.     It  need  scarcely  be  said  that  he  enjoys  to  the  fullest  extent 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  members  of  organized  labor,  both 
at  home  and  abroad,  for  his  uniformly  successful  career  justly  merits 
that  implicit  confidence  and  high  esteem  ever  accorded  an  honest 
official. 

No  man  in  Worcester  is  better  known  to  the  various  delegates  and 
leading  men  in  the  different  labor  organizations.  I  [is  work  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Central  Labor  Lnion  has  brought  him  into  contact  with 
all  of  them,  and  that  his  efforts  in  that  office  have  proven  satisfac- 
tory is  attested  by  the  fact  of  his  repeated  election.  Mr.  Pierce  is 
married  and  resides  at  92  Mavwood  street. 


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173 


Edmund  T.  Hastings,  the  Vice-President  of  the  Central  Labor 
Union,  was  born  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  on  July  24th,  1846.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  Amalgamated  Association  of  Street  Rail- 
way Employes  of  America,  Division  22,  February  2d,  1894,  and  on 
December  17th,  1897,  was  elected  its  President,  and  is  now  serving 


EDMUND  T.  HASTINGS. 
Vice-President  of  tlie  Central  Labor  Union. 


his  third  term  as  such.     He  was  at  one  time  its  Secretary,  and  is 
now  a  delegate  from  his  local  to  the  C.  L.  U. 

Mr.  Hastings  is  also  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Consolidated  Relief  Association,  and  was  elected  president  January 
4th,  1899.  He  has  also  served  for  eight  years  as  Secretary  of  the 
Worcester  Reform  Club.  He  is  married  and  resides  at  9  Goulding 
street. 


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retary  of  the  Central  Labor  Unioif  of  Worcester,  Mass    was  born  in 

year  RelinJr     ;"  ''''.^  ""  '^^  ^'^^  >'^«"  '^  ^-'^-t,  one 

farv     ZJ  f       ;  r'^'  "°'^"'  P'*'*"*  ^^'•^•"«  ««  Financial  Secre- 
tary.    He  IS  also  a  delegate  to  the  C.  L.  U. 


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175 


DONALD  SMITH, 
Oeneral  Secretary  ol  the  CentnU  Labor  Union. 

No  man  has  given  to  the  cause  of  the  wageworker  more  time 
more  energy,  or  more  honesty  of  purpose  than^  Donald  Smi  h  He 
18  a  worker  not  a  talker;  looks  for  practical  results  and  21  the 

ThZ       vr:  '''™'   *"'   '^  "   ™-  o^-"".   cool    uSent 

edo^Ln"ciub'  'tT'"^"  ''•''/  ^^  ''•  ^^  '^-  ""<*  ''''  ^olyoke  Cal- 
street  ''  """""^^  *°**   '"'''^'^  *"'^   ^48  Southbridge 


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J.  W.  Mara,  the  Treasurer  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  was  born 
in  Ireland,  Aug.  27th,  1858.  He  joined  Coremakers'  International 
Union  of  America  No.  15,  on  Jan.  26th,  1891,  and  after  holding 
the  oflBces  of  Treasurer  and  Recording  Secretary  was  elected  its  Cor- 
responding Representative,  and  also  represents  his  local  as  a  delegate 


^ 


J.  W.  MARA. 
SecreUry-Treat urer  of  the  Centnl  Labor  Union. 


in  the  Central  Labor  Union.  His  repeated  election  to  the  several 
offices  he  has  held  verifies  the  fact  that  his  efforts  in  behalf  of 
organized  labor  and  members  of  the  same  have  been  appreciated 
and  approved. 

Mr.  Mara  is  married  and  resides  at  423  Shrewsbury  street. 


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retao  of  the  Central  Labor  Unio.f  of  Worcester,  Mass    was  born  in 
UnirTo  f:"""'^  '^to''^""'  ''''■     "^  J'^'-'^  Iron  Mo  d': 

r         Het  f       7  r^''  """^"^  f*'"^^""*  *^""'e  "«  '•''"«"<='«!  Secre- 
tai  \ .     He  IS  also  a  delegate  to  the  C.  L.  U. 


DONALD  SMITH, 
Oener.!  S«r.Ury  of  the  Central  Ubor  Union. 

No  man  has  given  to  the  cause  of  the  wageworker   more  time 
more  energy,  or  more  honesty  of  purpose  than  Donald  Smi  h      He 
IS  a  worker  not  a  talker;  looks  for  practical  results  and  shapes  the 
means  to   insure   them,   and   is  a   man   of  calm,   cool  judgment 

edonian'ci'ub'  'h"'"'"  "' '\'  ^^  ''■  ^^  '^•'  ''"'^  "'«  ^olyoke  Cal- 
street  "  '""""''  """^   ''''^''  «"^   ^48  Southbridge 


OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


175 


J.  W.  Mara,  the  Treasurer  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  was  born 
in  Ireland,  Aug.  27th,  1858.  He  joined  Coremakers'  International 
Union  of  America  No.  15,  on  Jan.  26th,  1891,  and  after  holding 
the  offices  of  Treasurer  and  Recording  Secretary  was  elected  its  Cor- 
responding Representative,  and  also  represents  his  local  as  a  delegate 


J.  W.  MARA. 
SecreUry. Treasurer  of  the  Central  Labor  Union. 


in  the  Central  Labor  Union.  His  repeated  election  to  the  several 
offices  he  has  held  verifies  the  fact  that  his  efforts  in  behalf  of 
organized  labor  and  members  of  the  same  have  been  appreciated 
and  approved. 

Mr.  Mara  is  married  and  resides  at  423  Shrewsbury  street. 


1! 


H.  B.  STONE  &  CO.. 


WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL 


PAPER.    TWINE    AND  CORDAGE 


Notice  to  Building  Trades: 

3n^B  CnRRV  K  COTW^PLETE   LINE  OP 

ROOF^ING    HMD     BUILDING    RHRE 

9  PARK  STREET,  WORCESTER.  MASS. 


Madison  Square  Market. 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


I.  D.  CADY. 

CHOICE  GROCERIES.  WEATS  AND  PROVISIONS. 

Fine  Creamery  Butter  a  Specialty.    FruiU  in  their  Season. 

Telephone 277-4.  118    AND  118    SOUTHBRIDGE    ST 


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OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


177 


BUILDING  TRADES  COUNCIL. 

Thomas  Francis  Harney,  the  President  of  the  Building  Trades 
Council  of  Worcester,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  on  May  4th, 
1871.  He  joined  his  local.  Plumbers  Union  No.  4,  on  June  28th, 
1894,  and  in  1895  was  vice-president  of  the  same.     He  represents 


THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY. 
President  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 

No,  4  as  a  delegate  in  the  Building  Trades  Council,  and  is  at  present 
filling  the  office  of  President. 

Mr.  Harney  is  an  earnest  and  zealous  worker  in  the  cause  of  labor 
and  omits  no  opportunity  of  assisting  in  the  common  cause  by  his 
untiring  efforts.  Young  and  full  of  life  and  energy,  he  is  able  to 
cope  with  the  serious  and  great  questions  of  the  day,  and  under  his 


H.  B.  STONE  d  CO., 


WHOLESAI^E  AND  RKTAII. 


PAPER.    TWINE    AND  CORDAGE 


Notice  to  Building  Trades: 


irt^e   CKRRV  K   C07WPLETE    L.IN 


E  OF 


ROOMING    HMD     BUILDING     RHRERS, 

9  PARK  STREET,  WORCESTER.  MASS. 


Madison  Square  Market. 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


I.  D.  CADY. 

CHOICE  GROCERIES.  MEATS  AND  PROVISIONS. 

Fine  Creamery  Butter  a  Specialty.    Fruits  In  their  Season. 

Telephone  277-4.  116    AND  118    SOUTHBRIDGE    ST 


17<; 


OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


BUILDING  TRADES  COUNCIL. 


17 


Thomas  Francis  Harney,  the  President  of  the  Building  Trades 
Council  of  Worcester,  was  born  in   Worcester,  Mass.,  on  Mav  4th 
1871.     He  joined  his  local.  Plumbers  Union  No.  4,  on  June  28th, 
1894,  and  in  189.")  was  vice-president  of  the  same.     He  represents 


THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY, 
President  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 

No.  4  as  a  delegate  in  the  Building  Trades  Council,  and  is  at  present 
filling  the  office  of  President. 

Mr.  Harney  is  an  earnest  and  zealous  worker  in  the  cause  of  labor 
and  omits  no  opportunity  of  assisting  in  the  common  cause  by  his 
untiring  efforts.  Young  and  full  of  life  and  energy,  he  is  able  to 
cope  with  the  serious  and  great  questions  of  the  day,  and  under  his 


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"^  OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 

careful  and  conscientious  leadership  much  has  been  accomplished 
for  the  organizations  and  their  members.  He  is  a  painstaking  and 
devout  advocate  of  the  cause  and  improves  all  available  opportuni- 
ties to  further  the  interests  of  his  associates. 

He  is  the  Chairman  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose  jur- 
isdiction .this  work  is  published,  while  the  successful  issue  of  this 
History  was  largely  due  to  the  keen  interest  and  unremitting  strug- 
gle Mr  Harney  manifested,  and  much  of  the  data  contained  herein 
(for  which  the  public  is  indebted)  was  obtained  through  his  per- 
sonal efforts.  ^ 

Few  acquainted  with  the  vast  and  varied  statistics,  dates  and  sub- 
jects contained  in  this  volume  can  realize  the  importance,  and  in 
fact,  the  demands  necessarily  required  of  Mr.  Harnev.     It  is  to'  be 
hoped  that  his  persistent  and  constant  efforts  through  the  many 
days,  weeks  and  months  during  which  time  the  compilation  of  this 
work  has  been  in  progress  will  be  conscientiouslv  and  deservingly 
appreciated.     We  take  this  occasion  to  publicly  thank  him  for  all 
he  has  done  to  place  in  the  hands  of  the  public  such  information 
concerning  Labor  Organizations  as  will  tend  to  bring  both  in  closer 
and  more  harmonious  relations.     Personally,  we  thank  him  for  his 
unswerving  services  to  the  Council  and  the  organizations  represented 
feehng  that  all  appreciate  his  valuable  aid  while  officiating  in  the 
duties  entrusted  to  the  committee. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  A.  0.  H.,  Division  38,  and  at  present  is 
officiating  as  its  president.  Mr.  Harney  is  married  and  resides  at 
oy  balem  street. 

Mr.  Harney  attended  the  tenth  annual  convention  of  the  United 
Association  of  Plumbers,  Steam  and  Gas  Fitters  and  Steam  Fitters 
Helpers  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  held  in  Peoria  HI  Sen- 
tember  25th,  1899.  He  was  the  unanimous  choice  of  thi  Eastern 
delegation  for  organizer  of  the  U.  A.,  but  after  a  careful  considera- 
tion of  the  question  declined  to  stand,  expressing  his  desire  to 
remain  in  Worcester. 


OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


179 


John  B.  Lamothe,  the  Vice-President  of  the  Building  Trades 
Council,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  on  December  19th,  1852.  He 
came  to  Worcester  in  December,  1883,  and  was  first  organizer  and  a 
charter  member  of  Steam  Fitters^  Union  No.  25.     He  has  held  sev- 


JOHN  B.  LAMOTHE. 
Vice-President  of  tlie  Bulldins  Tildes  Council. 


eral  offices  in  his  local,  and  is  now  its  President,  and  also  a  delegate 
to  the  Building  Trades  Council  and  Central  Labor  Union. 

Mr.  Lamothe  has  followed  the  steam  fitting  vocation  for  (wenty- 
two  years,  and  has  held  positions  with  leading  firms  of  the  city 
He  resides  at  61  Central  avenue  and  is  married. 


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careful  and  conscientious  leadership  much  has  been  accomplished 
for  the  organizations  and  their  members.  He  is  a  painstaking  and 
devout  advocate  of  the  cause  and  improves  all  available  opportuni- 
ties to  further  the  interests  of  his  associates. 

He  is  the  Chairman  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose  jur- 
isdiction .this  work  is  published,  while  the  successful  issue  of  this 
History  was  largely  due  to  the  keen  interest  and  unremitting  strug- 
gle Mr  Harney  manifested,  and  much  of  the  data  contained  herein 
(for  which  the  public  is  indebted)  was  obtained  through  his  per- 
sonal efforts.  ^ 

Few  acquainted  with  the  vast  and  varied  statistics,  dates  and  sub- 
jects contained  in  this  volume  can  realize  the  importance,  and  in 
lact,  the  demands  necessarily  required  of  Mr.  Harnev.     It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  his  persistent   and  constant  efforts   through  the  many 
days,  weeks  and  months  during  which  time  the  compilation  of  this 
work  has  been  in  progress  will  be  conscientiouslv  and  deservingly 
appreciate.1.     We  take  this  occasion  to  publicly  thank  him  for  all 
he  has  done  to  place  in  the  hands  of  the  public  such  information 
concerning  Labor  Organizations  as  will  tend  to  bring  both  in  closer 
and  more  harmonious  relations.     Personally,  we  thank  him  for  his 
unswerving  services  to  the  Council  and  the  organizations  represented 
feeling  that  all  appreciate  his  valuable  aid  while  officiating  in  the 
duties  entrusted  to  the  committee. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  A.  0.  H.,  Division  38,  and  at  present  is 
officiating  as  its  president.  Mr.  Harney  is  married  and  resides  at 
oy  balem  street. 

Mr.  Harney  attended  the  tenth  annual  convention  of  the  United 
Association  of  Plumbers,  Steam  and  fias  Fitters  and  Steam  Fitters 
Helpers  of  the  United  States  and  Cana.la,  held  in  Peoria  HI  Sen 
tember  25th,  1899.  He  was  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  Eastern 
delegation  for  organizer  of  the  U.  A.,  but  after  a  careful  considera- 
tion of  the  question  declined  to  stand,  expressing  his  desire  to 
remain  in  Worcester. 


OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


179 


John  B.  Lamothe,  the  Vice-President  of  the  Building  Trades 
Council,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  on  December  19th,  1852.  He 
came  to  Worcester  in  December,  1883,  and  was  first  organizer  and  a 
charter  member  of  Steam  Fitters'  Union  No.  25.     He  has  held  sev- 


JOHN  B.  LAMOTHE. 
Vice-President  of  the  Buiiding  Trades  Council. 


eral  offices  in  his  local,  and  is  now  its  President,  and  also  a  delegate 
to  the  Building  Trades  Council  and  Central  Labor  Union. 

Mr.  Lamothe  has  followed  the  steam  fitting  vocation  for  hventy- 
two  years,  and  has  held  positions  with   leading  firms  of  the  city 
He  resides  at  61  Central  avenue  and  is  married. 


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OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


Albert  H.  Knight,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Building  Trades 
Councilor  Worcester,  was  born  in  Northbrookfield,  Mass.,  on  Febru- 
ary 12th,  1864.  He  is  also  the  Recording  Secretary  of  Carpenters 
and  Joiners'  Union  No.  23,  having  joined  his  local  on  May  28th, 


ALBERT  H.  KNIOHT, 
Recording  Secretary  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 


1897.     He  also  served  on  the  board  of  auditors,  and  is  a  delegate  to 
the  Building  Trades  Council. 

Mr.  Knight  is  a  member  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose 
jurisdiction  this  work  was  published.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Red 
Men,  is  married  and  resides  at  5  Norman  avenue. 


PEARL  ST..   WORCESTER.  MASS.. 

Is  the  Largest  and  Best  Equipped 

RESTHURHNT 

In  New  England  Outside  of  Boston. 

LUNCH  HMD  GRILU  R007WT  IN   BKSETW^ENT 

With  entrance  from  Creamerie  Alley,  is  proving  very  popular     The 
best  of  food  and  low  prices  prevail  throngliout  the  establishment. 

HEKDQUKRTBRS   POR   PV/RE   lOe   CREKTW^. 


THB 


JAMES  J.  QILREIN, 

SAMPLE  ROOM. 

^^  GRKFTON  ST., 


BOLER  BROS;  TADGA8TER  ALE  ald  PORTER 

AND  KING'S  BOHEMIAN  BEER. 

ALWAYS  ON  DRAUGHT. 


FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  WINES  AND  LIQUORS  OF  THE  BEST. 

ALSO    TOBACCO    AND    A     FULL    LINE    OF    UNION    MADE    CIGARS. 

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Albert  II.  Knight,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Building  Trades 
C'ouncilof  Worcester,  was  born  in  Nortlibrookfield,  Mass.,  on  F'ebru- 
ary  12th,  1S(U.  He  is  also  the  Recording  Secretary  of  Carpenters 
and  Joiners'  Union   No.  2:i,  having  joined  his  local  on  May  28th, 


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Recording  SecreUry  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 


1897.     He  also  served  on  the  board  of  auditors,  and  is  a  delegate  to 
the  Building  Trades  Council. 

Mr.  Knight  is  a  member  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose 
jurisdiction  this  work  was  published.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Red 
Men,  is  married  and  resides  at  5  Norman  avenue. 


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UNIONS  OF  WORCESTER. 

Geo.  W.  Temple,  the  President  of  the  Bricklayers,  Masons  and 
Plasterers'  Union,  was  born  in  Moscow,  Maine,  on  April  13th,  1837. 
He  joined  his  local  in  March,  1898,  and  served  as  its  Vice-president* 
Mr.  Temple  is  a  staunch  and  firm  believer  in  union  principles,  and 
has  done  much  to  further  the  interests  of  the  members  of  his  Union, 
and  represents  them  as  a  delegate  in  the  Building  Trades  Council! 
He  is  single  and  resides  at  57  Oxford  street. 

Thomas  Moran  was  born  in  Ireland  in  the  year  1850.  He  joined 
the  Bricklayers,  Masons  and  Plasterers'  Union  in  1898,  and  is  at 
present  the  Treasurer  of  the  organization.  Mr.  Moran  also  has  the 
distmction  of  representing  his  local  in  the  Building  Trades  Council 
as  he  is  a  delegate  to  that  body  from  No.  29.  He  is  a  Forrester  is 
single  and  resides  at  128  Southbridge  street. 


A.  D.  SIMONS. 


PATRICK  DEMPSEY. 


AD.  Simous,  the  President  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America 
Local  No.  23,  was  born  in  Poland,  Maine,  on  March  11th  1859     He 
joined  the  Union  on  May  3d,  1889,  and  has  held  his  present  office 
for  eight  terms,  having  served  as  Vice-president  two  terms 

Mr.  Simonds  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Goodfellows  is 
single  and  lives  at  59  Orange  street. 

Patrick  Dempsey  is  the  Vice-President  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners 
of  America  No.  23.  He  was  born  in  Cork,  Ireland,  on  February 
25th  1871.  It  was  in  July,  1896,  that  Mr.  Dempsey  joined  his 
local,  and  as  a  delegate  from  the  same  he  represents  it  in  the  Build- 
ing Trades  Council.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hi- 
bernians, is  single  and  resides  at  16  Union  avenue. 


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from  blowing  soot  and  smoke  down  the  chimney    ^    ^    i^ 

TERRA  COTTA  CHIMNEY  TOPS  AND  IRON  CHIMNEY  CAPS 
FIRE  BRICK,  FACE  AND  BUILDING  BRICK, 

STAPLES  IMPROVED  MORTAR  AND  BRICK  HODS. 


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LIME.  CEMENTS.   PLASTERS. 


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183 


UNIONS  OF  WORCESTER. 

Geo.  W.  Temple,  the  President  of  the  Bricklayers,  Masons  and 
Plasterers'  Union,  was  born  in  Moscow,  Maine,  on  April  13th,  1837. 
He  joined  his  local  in  March,  1898,  and  served  as  its  Vice-president 
Mr.  Temple  is  a  staunch  and  firm  believer  in  union  principles,  and 
has  done  much  to  further  the  interests  of  the  members  of  his  Union, 
and  represents  them  as  a  delegate  in  the  Building  Trades  Council! 
He  is  single  and  resides  at  57  Oxford  street. 

Thomas  Moran  was  born  in  Ireland  in  the  year  1850.  He  joined 
the  Bricklayers,  Masons  and  Plasterers'  Union  in  1898,  and  is  at 
present  the  Treasurer  of  the  organization.  Mr.  Moran  also  has  the 
distmction  of  representing  his  local  in  the  Building  Trades  Council 
as  he  is  a  delegate  to  that  body  from  No.  29.  He  is  a  Forrester  is 
single  and  resides  at  128  Southbridge  street. 


A.  D.  SIMONS. 


PATRICK  DEMPSEY. 


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A.  D.  Simons,  the  President  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America 
Local  No.  23,  was  born  in  Poland,  Maine,  on  March  11th   1859     He 
jomed  the  Union  on  May  3d,  1889,  and  has  held  his  present  office 
lor  eight  terms,  having  served  as  Vice-president  two  terms 

Mr.  Simonds  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Goodfellows,  is 
smgle  and  lives  at  59  Orange  street. 

Patrick  Dempsey  is  the  Vice-President  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners 
of  America  No.  23.  He  was  born  in  Cork,  Ireland,  on  February 
2oth  1871.  It  was  in  July,  1896,  that  Mr.  Dempsey  joined  his 
local,  and  as  a  delegate  from  the  same  he  represents  it  in  the  Build- 
ing Trades  Council.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hi- 
bernians, IS  single  and  resides  at  IG  Union  avenue. 


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OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


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Albert  H.  Knight,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America  No.  23.     See  sketch  on  page  179. 

William  A.  Rossley  was  born  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  on  Dec.  12th, 
1863.  He  joined  Carpenters*  and  Joiners*  of  America  No.  23,  on 
July  6th,  1896,  held  the  oflBce  of  President  for  one  term  and  is  now 
the  Financial  Secretary  of  the  Union,  and  is  also  a  delegate  to  the 
Building  Trades  Council  and  for  two  terms  was  the  President  of  the 
Council,  also  Business  Agent  for  the  Carpenters.  He  is  a  Forester, 
is  married  and  lives  at  5  City  View  street. 


AI^BERT  H.  KNIGHT.  JOHN  J.  McNUI,TY. 

John  J.  McNulty  was  born  on  June  22d,  1862,  in  Ireland.  He 
became  a  member  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America  Local  No. 
23  in  1886,  and  at  one  time  held  the  oflBce  of  Recording  Secretary, 
but  at  the  present  time  is  the  Treasurer  of  the  Union.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Forresters  of  America,  resides  at  3  Winthrop  street 
and  is  married. 

Jefferson  D.  Pierce,  the  President  of  Cigarmakers'  Union  No.  92. 
See  sketch  on  page  171. 

Frederick  A.  Deitmer  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  on  Aug.  6th, 
1871.  On  Oct.  16th,  1890,  he  joined  his  local  Cigarmakers  Union 
No.  92,  and  at  present  is  the  Treasurer  of  the  same.  Mr.  Deitmer 
is  a  member  of  several  societies,  among  them  being  the  Froshinn 
Society  and  the  Knights  of  Pj^thias.  He  resides  at  3  Arlington 
street  and  is  single. 

Francis  Patrick  A.  Gilchrist  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  on 
March  10th,  1873.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  Coremakers*  Union 
No.  15,  which  he  joined  Oct.  22d,  1891.  He  has  held  the  office  of 
Corresponding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary,  Vice-President,  and 


OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


185 


for  four  terms  has  been  President  of  the  Union.  Is  also  a  delegate 
to  the  Central  Labor  Union  and  for  a  year  and  a  half  held  the  office 
of  President  in  that  body. 


JBPPBRSON  D.  PIERCE, 


FREDERICK  A.  DEITMER, 


Mr.  Gilchrist  is  prominent  in  sporting  and  athletic  circles,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Wachusetts  Boat  Club,  St.  Anne's  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Casino  Bowling  Association.  The  following  briefly 
note  some  of  his  achievements:     In  six  eight-oared  races,  won  six  ; 


FRANCIS  PATRICK  A.  GII^CHRIST. 


J.  W.  MARA. 


won  junior  championship  of  N.  E.;  intermediate  championship  and 
world's  record  for  a  mile;  also  a  long  record  of  prizes  won  for  run- 
ning, jumping,  roller  polo,  swimming  and  shooting.  Mr.  Gilchrist 
is  married  and  resides  at  11  South  Harding  street. 

J.  W.  Mara,  corresponding  representative  of  Core  Makers'  Union. 
See  sketch  on  page  175. 


I, 


184 


OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


Albert  H.  Knight,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America  No.  23.     See  sketch  on  page  179. 

William  A.  liossley  was  born  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  on  Dec.  12th, 
1803.  He  joined  Carpenters'  and  Joiners'  of  America  No.  23,  on 
July  Gth,  1896,  held  the  office  of  President  for  one  term  and  is  now 
the  Financial  Secretary  of  the  Union,  and  is  also  a  delegate  to  the 
Building  Trades  Council  and  for  two  terms  was  the  President  of  the 
Council,  also  Business  Agent  for  the  Carpenters.  He  is  a  Forester, 
is  married  and  lives  at  5  City  View  street. 


ALBERT  H.  KNIGHT.  JOHN  J.  McNULTY. 

John  J.  McNulty  was  born  on  June  22d,  1862,  in  Ireland.  He 
became  a  member  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America  Local  No. 
23  in  1886,  and  at  one  time  held  the  office  of  Recording  Secretary, 
but  at  the  present  time  is  the  Treasurer  of  the  Union.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Forresters  of  America,  resides  at  3  Winthrop  street 
and  is  married. 

Jefferson  I).  Pierce,  the  President  of  Cigarmakers'  Union  No.  92. 
See  sketch  on  page  171. 

Frederick  A.  Deitmer  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  on  Aug.  6th, 
1871.  On  Oct.  16th,  1890,  he  joined  his  local  Cigarmakers  Union 
No.  92,  and  at  present  is  the  Treasurer  of  the  same.  Mr.  Deitmer 
is  a  member  of  several  societies,  among  them  being  the  Froshinn 
Society  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  resides  at  3  Arlington 
street  and  is  single. 

Francis  Patrick  A.  Gilchrist  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  on 
March  10th,  1873.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  Coremakers'  Union 
No.  15,  which  he  joined  Oct.  22d,  1891.  He  has  held  the  office  of 
Corresponding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary,  Vice-President,  and 


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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


185 


for  four  terms  has  been  President  of  the  Union.  Is  also  a  delegate 
to  the  Central  Labor  Union  and  for  a  year  and  a  half  held  the  office 
of  President  in  that  body. 


JEFFERSON  D.  PIERCE, 


FREDERICK  A.  DEITMER. 


Mr.  Gilchrist  is  prominent  in  sporting  and  athletic  circles,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Wachusetts  Boat  Club,  St.  Anne's  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Casino  Bowling  Association.  The  following  briefly 
note  some  of  his  achievements :     In  six  eight-oared  races,  won  six  ; 


FRANCIS  PATRICK  A.  GII^CHRIST. 


J.  W.  MARA. 


won  junior  championship  of  N.  E.;  intermediate  championship  and 
world's  record  for  a  mile;  also  a  long  record  of  prizes  won  for  run- 
ning, jumping,  roller  polo,  swimming  and  shooting.  Mr.  Gilchrist 
is  married  and  resides  at  11  South  Harding  street. 

J.  W.  Mara,  corresponding  representative  of  Core  Makers'  Union. 
See  sketch  on  page  175. 


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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


187 


Albert  Earnest  Needham,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  Core  Makers' 
Union  No.  15,  was  born  on  June  26th,  1876,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
He  became  a  member  of  Local  15  in  January,  1896,  and  has  held 
the  office  of  Corresponding  Secretary.  At  present  he  is  a  delegate 
to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Needham  is  single  and  resides  at 
5  Morton  Court. 


AI,BERT  EARNEST  NEEDHAM.  JOHN  CROAKB. 

John  F.  Harrington,  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  is  the  Financial 
Secretary  of  Coremakers'  Union  No.  15.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Union  in  1893,  and  is  now  serving  his  fourth  term  in  the  above 
office.  Mr.  Harrington  is  a  member  of  St.  Anne's  Temperance  So- 
ciety, and  in  point  of  membership  is  one  of  the  oldest  menfbers  on 
the  roll.     He  resides  at  115  East  Central  street. 

John  Croake,  the  Treasurer  of  Coremakers'  Union  No.  15,  is  a  na- 
tive of  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  was  born  on  October  4th,  1859.  He 
joined  his  local  as  a  charter  member  January  26th,  1891,  and  has 
served  on  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  is  also  delegate  from  No.  15 
to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Croake  is  a  member  of  Court 
Damascus  No.  29,  is  single  and  resides  at  45  Canterbury  street. 

P.  H.  SULLIVAN, 

Dealer  In 

Choice  Meats,  Groceries  and  Provisions, 

Every  Variety  of  Fruits  in  Season, 

Choice  Assortment  of  Canned  Goods. 
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I U  Shrewsbury  Street, 

WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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Donald  Smith,  Financial  Secretary  of  Iron  Molders'  Union.     See 
sketch  on  page  174. 


DONAI.D  SMITH.  p^^I.  NAUI.T. 

Fault  Nault,  jr.,  the  Vice-President  of  Lasters'  Union  No.  162, 
was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  on  September  22d,  1855.  He  joined 
his  local  in  1885,  and  has  held  the  office  of  president,  and  at  present 
IS  a  delegate  to  the  Central  Labor  Union,  also  holding  the  office  of 
Sergeant-at-Arms  in  that  body.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  History 
Committee,  under  whose  jurisdiction  this  work  was  published.  Mr. 
Nault  is  married  and  resides  at  8  Albert  avenue. 


WILUAM  CROSBIE. 


THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY. 


William  Crosbie,  Recording  Secretary  of  Brotherhood  of  Painters 
and  Decorators  of  America,  Local  48,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  Eng- 

S  T       '  ff:  ','''•     "P""  ""''  ^'"^^'  '"  **>•«  -""^ry  in  Jun!, 
1893,  he  joined  his  local.     He  is  a  delegate  to  the  Building  Trades 

Counc.  ,  organizer  for  National  Building  Trades  Council,  and  First 

General  Vice-President  of  the  National  Brotherhood.     Mr  Crosbie 


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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


Albert  Earnest  Xeedham,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  Core  Makers' 
Union  No.  15,  was  born  on  June  26th,  1876,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
He  became  a  member  of  Local  15  in  January,  1896,  and  has  held 
the  office  of  Corresponding  Secretary.  At  present  he  is  a  delegate 
to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Needham  is  single  and  resides  at 
5  Morton  Court. 


ALBERT  EARNEST  NEEDHAM.  JOHN  CROAKE. 

John  F.  Harrington,  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  is  the  Financial 
Secretary  of  Coremakers'  Union  No.  15.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Union  in  1893,  and  is  now  serving  his  fourth  term  in  the  above 
office.  Mr.  Harrington  is  a  member  of  St.  Anne's  Temperance  So- 
ciety, and  in  point  of  membership  is  one  of  the  oldest  members  on 
the  roll.     He  resides  at  115  East  Central  street. 

John  Croake,  the  Treasurer  of  Coremakers'  Union  No.  15,  is  a  na- 
tive of  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  was  born  on  October  4th,  1859.  He 
joined  his  local  as  a  charter  member  January  26th,  1891,  and  has 
served  on  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  is  also  delegate  from  No.  15 
to  the  (^entral  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Croake  is  a  member  of  Court 
Damascus  No.  29,  is  single  and  resides  at  45  Canterburv  street. 

P.  H.  SULLIVAN, 

Dealer  in 

Choice  Meats,  Groceries  and  Provisions, 

Every  Variety  of  Fruits  in  Season, 

Ciioice  Assortment  of  Canned  Goods. 
QIVE  US  A  ^^'»  Mi 

1 14  Shrewsbury  Street, 

WORCESTER.  MASS. 


187 


Donald  Smith,  Financial  Secretary  of  Iron  Molders'  Union.     See 
sketch  on  page  174. 


DONAI,D  SMITH. 


PAUI^  NALXT. 


Pault  Xault,  jr.,  the  Vice-President  of  Lasters'  Union  No.  162, 
was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  on  September  22d,  1855.  He  joined 
his  local  in  1885,  and  has  held  the  office  of  president,  and  at  present 
is  a  delegate  to  the  Central  Labor  Union,  also  holding  the  office  of 
Sergeant-at-Arms  in  that  body.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  History 
Committee,  under  whose  jurisdiction  this  work  was  published.  Mr. 
Nault  is  married  and  resides  at  8  Albert  avenue. 


\VII.I,IAM  CROSBIE. 


THOMAS  FRANCIS  HARNEY 


William  Crosbie,  Recording  Secretary  of  Brotherhood  of  Painters 
and  Decorators  of  America,  Local  48,  was  bom  in  Liverpool,  En..- 
hu^  ou  July  23d,  1852.  Upon  his  arrival  in  this  countrv  in  Jun:, 
1893,  he  joined  h.s  local.  He  is  a  delegate  to  the  Building  Trades 
Counc.  ,  organizer  for  National  Building  Trades  ('ouncil,  and  First 
General  Vice-President  of  the  National  Brotherhood.     Mr  Crosl.ie 


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Nos.  2,  4  and  i  CHEKRY  STREET, 
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NO.  56  PLEMSRNT  ST..         WORCESTER,  MASS. 
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JOSEPH  HARPER, 

WHOLESALE  WINE  and  LIQUOR  DEALER, 

SOUTH  iniORcesreR  bottling  3;ii£Ork:s. 

660  to  668  Southbridge  St.,  .  .  Worcester,  Mass. 


Dealer  in  Choice  Wines.  Pure  Whiskies.  Gins  and  Rums.  Bottler  of  B.  B.  Sparkling  Ale. 
Tadcaster  and  Export  Pale  Ale.  Scnaca,  Royal  Worcester  and  Nuremburg  Lagers;  also  Bohemian 
Export  Imager.  Manufacturer  of  Harper's  Belfast  Ginger  Ale.  Lemon  Soda,  the  famous  Vino  and 
Kola  Dnnk.s,  and  all  kinds  of  tonics.  Also  Fountains  and  Syrups  supplied  to  druKfdsts.  Tele- 
phone connection. 

188 


OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


189 


is  a  member  of  Court  Fred  T.  Greenhalge,  F.  of  A.,  Division  34, 
and  A.  0.  H.     Is  married  and  resides  at  2  Illinois  street. 
^  Thomas  Francis  Harney,  President  of  Plumbers'  Union  No.  4. 
See  sketch  on  page  177. 

John  Joseph  Rooney  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1871,  and  when  about 
eight  years  old  came  to  this  country  and  attended  the  public  schools. 
In  September,  1892,  he  became  a  member  of  Plumbers'  Union  Local 
No.  4.  He  held  the  office  of  Financial  Secretary,  and  at  present  is 
the  Vice-President  of  the  Union  and  a  delegate  to  the  Building 
Trades  Council,  and  served  as  delegate  to  the  Convention  of  Plumb- 
ers held  in  Albany,  also  Brooklyn  in  1896,  and  in  Buffalo  in  1897. 

Mr.  Rooney  is  a  member  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose 
jurisdiction  this  work  was  published.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's 
Total  Abstinence  Society,  resides  at  40  Chandler  street  and  is  single. 


JOHN  JOSEPH  ROONEY. 


CHARLES  CLARK. 


Charles  Clark,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  Plumbers'  Union  No  4 
was  born  in  London,  England,  on  Julv  6th,  1873.     He  joined  his 
local  on  May  27th,  1897,  and  was  elected  to  his  present  office  the 
following  year.     His  early  occupation  was  that  of  a  wood  worker 
but  he  later  learned  the  plumbers'  trade.     He  is  single  and  resides 
at  151  Austin  street. 

Michael  J.  McNulty  was  born  in  Bristol,  Conn.,  on  March  8th, 
1809.  He  joined  Plumbers'  Union  No.  4  in  1888,  and  has  held  the 
office  of  Recording  Secretary,  and  is  now  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors;  also  a  delegate  to  the  Building  Trades  Council  He 
assisted  in  organizing  the  plumbers  in  Ashville,  N.  C  and  in  Sa- 
vannah and  Atlanta,  Ga.  Mr.  McNulty  is  a  member  of  the  Hiber- 
mans.  Division  No.  38.     He  resides  at  71  Madison  street  and  is 


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Sheet  Lead, 

Lead  Traps, 

Bends  and  Solder. 


Telephone  Call  554-3. 


Nos.  2,  4  and  t  CHERRY  STREET, 
Worcester,  Mass. 


WM.  P.  TUCKER, 

PLUTVIBINC, 


NO.  56  PLEASANT  ST., 
Telephone  Connection. 


NA/ORCESTER.  MASS. 


JOSEPH  HARPER, 

WHOLESALE  WINE  and  LIQUOR  DEALER, 

SOUTH  in^ORCeSXeR   BOTTLING  :^ORKS. 

660  to  668  Southbridge  5t.,  .  .  Worcester,  Mass. 


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Dealer  in  Choice  Wines,   Pure  Whiskies.  Gins  and  Rums.     Bottler  of    B.   B.  Sparkline  Ale 
radcaster  and  Exijort  Pale  Ale.    Senaca,  Royal  Worcester  and  Nuremburg  lagers;  also  Bohemian 
Kxport  Ltger.     Manufacturer  of  Harper's  Belfast  Ginger  Ale.  I^einon  Soda,  the  famous  Vino  and 
Kola  Dnnk.s.  and  all  kinds  of  tonics.     Also  Fountains  and  Syrups  supplied  to  druggists.     Tele- 
phone connection.  .^      ■-         f  •  »» 

188 


Omi  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


189 


is  a  member  of  Court  Fred  T.  Greenhalge,  F.  of  A.,  Division  34, 
and  A.  ().  II.     Is  married  and  resides  at  2  Illinois  street. 

Thomas  Francis  Harney,  President  of  Plumbers'  Union  No.  4. 
8ee  sketch  on  page  1 77. 

John  Joseph  Rooney  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1871,  and  when  about 
eight  years  old  came  to  this  country  and  attended  the  public  schools. 
In  September,  1892,  he  became  a  member  of  Plumbers'  Union  Local 
No.  4.  He  held  the  office  of  Financial  Secretary,  and  at  present  is 
the  Vice-President  of  the  Union  and  a  delegate  to  the  Building 
Trades  Council,  and  served  as  delegate  to  the  Convention  of  Plumb- 
ers held  in  Albany,  also  Brooklyn  in  1896,  and  in  Buffalo  in  1897. 

Mr.  Rooney  is  a  member  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose 
jurisdiction  this  work  was  published.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's 
Total  Abstinence  Society,  resides  at  40  Chandler  street  and  is  single. 


CHARI^ES  CI^ARK. 


JOHN  JOSEPH  ROONEY. 

Charles  Clark,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  Plumbers'  Union  No  4 
was  born  in  London,  England,  on  Julv  Oth,  1873.     He  joined  his 
local  on  May  27th,  1897,  and  was  elected  to  his  present  office  the 
following  year.     His  early  occupation  was  that  of  a  wood  worker 
but  he  later  learned  the  plumbers'  trade.     He  is  single  and  resides 
at  151  Austin  street. 

Michael  J.  McNulty  was  born  in  Bristol,  Conn.,  on  March  8th 
1809.  He  joined  Plumbers'  Union  No.  4  in  1888,  and  has  held  the 
office  of  Recording  Secretary,  and  is  now  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors;  also  a  delegate  to  the  Building  Trades  Council  He 
assisted  m  organizing  the  plumbers  in  Ashville,  N.  C  and  in  Sa- 
vannah and  Athmta,  Ga.     Mr.  McNulty  is  a  member  of  the  Hiber- 


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INCORPO  RATED  1S94. 


Ti  L.  HARDY  COMPANY, 


Manufacturers  of 


TV^KOHINE  KNIVES  FOR 


PAPER,  WOOD,  LEATHER,  METAL,  ETC., 

PLKTED  STOCK  OF=  KLL  KINDS. 

DIE    STOCK    FOR    BOOT    AND    SHOE    DIES. 

9  TV^ILL-  STREET. 


Henry  Hoyt.  President. 


Chas.  H.  Bliss,  Treasurer. 


iniOROESTER.  TWTHSS. 


Economy  Is  Wealth. 


And  For  This  Alone  You  Should  Save  Money. 

You  can  save  25  per  cent,  on  buying  of  us.  We  don't  have  to  pay  a  high  rent 
and  expensive  help  as  the  upstreet  merchants.  We  carry  every  desirable  line  of 
DRY  GOODS,  CLOTHING  AND  GENTS'  FURNISHINGS;  also  a  complete  line 
of  BOOTS,  SHOES  AND  RUBBERS  from  the  best  makers  in  the  country. 

Call  and  Convince  Yourself  at  the 

ISLAND  DRY  GOODS,  BOOT  AND  SHOE  STORE, 

Lamartine  St.,  Directly  opposite  Grosvenor  St^  .  Worcester,  Mass 

MAX  LEVENSOHN,  Prop 
190 


OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


191 


Michael  J.  McPartland  is  a  native  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  was 
born  August  1st,  1870.  He  holds  the  office  of  Financial  Secretary 
of  Plumbers'  Union  No.  4,  which  Union  he  joined  on  November 
24th,  1896.  Previous  to  his  election  to  his  present  office  he  was  in- 
side sentinel  of  his  local.  Mr.  McPartland  from  his  early  occupa- 
tion  to  the  present  time  has  followed  the  plumbing  trade,  is  single 
and  resides  at  6  George  street. 


MICHAEI,  J.  MCNUI.TY.  ^BEN  M.  J.  DAVIS. 

Eben  M.  G.  Davis,  born  February  9th,  1866,  in  Westboro,  Mass 
IS  the  President  of  Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters'  Union  No.   2b 
His  early  occupation  was  that  of  a  farmer,  but  later  learned  the 
steam  and  hot  water  fitters'  trade.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows, is  married  and  lives  at  49  Irving  street. 


J.  B.  I^AMOTHE.  ^    s    ^^^^^ 

John  B.  Lamothe,  President  of  Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters 
See  sketch  on  page  178. 

Walter  S.  Chase,  the  Secretary  of  Steam  Fitters'  Union  No.  25 
was  born  in  Eastford,  Conn.,  on  June  5th,  1870.     He  joined  his 


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THE  L.  HARDY  COMPANY, 


Manufacturers  of 


TVVT^CHINE  KNIVES  FOR 


PAPER,  WOOD,  LEATHER,  METAL,  ETC., 

PLKTEO  STOCK  OF=  KLL  KINDS. 

DIE    STOCK    FOR    BOOT    AND    SHOE    DIES, 

9  TV^ILl-  STREET. 


Henry  Hoyt.  President. 


Chas.  H.  Bliss,  Treasurer. 


VvCORCESTER.  TV^IHSS. 


Economy  Is  Wealth. 


And  For  This  Alone  You  Should  Save  Money. 

You  can  save  25  per  cent,  on  buying  of  us.  We  don't  have  to  pnv  a  high  rent 
and  expensive  help  as  the  npstreet  merchants.  We  carrv  everv  desirable  line  of 
DRV  GOODS,  CLOTHIXG  AND  GENTS'  FURNISHINGS;  alk)  a  complete  line 
of  DOOTS,  SHOKS  AND  RUBBERS  from  the  best  makers  in  the  country. 

Call  and  Convince  Yourself  at  the 

ISLAND  DRY  GOODS,  BOOT  AND  SHOE  STORE, 

Lamartine  St.,  Directly  opposite  Grosvenor  St.,  .  Worcester,  Mass 

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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


101 


Michael  J.  McPartland  is  a  native  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  was 
born  August  1st,  1870.  He  holds  the  office  of  Financial  Secretary 
of  Plumbers'  Union  No.  4,  which  Union  he  joined  on  November 
24th,  1896.  Previous  to  his  election  to  his  present  office  he  was  in- 
side sentinel  of  his  local.  Mr.  McPartland  from  his  early  occupa- 
tion to  the  present  time  has  followed  the  plumbing  trade,^-s  sinole 
and  resides  at  6  (Jeorge  street.  '  ^ 


MICHAEI.  J.  MCNII.TV.  ^^^^  ^^    ^    ^^^,^^ 

Eben  :\I.  C;.  Davis,  born   February  9th,  1866,  in  Westboro,  Mass 
IS  the  President  of  Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters'  Union  No    95' 
His  early  occupation  was  that  of  a  farmer,  but  later  learned  The 
steam  and  hot  water  fitters'  trade.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows,  is  married  and  lives  at  49  Irving  street. 


J.  B.  I^AMOTHE. 


W.  S.  CHASK. 


John  B.  Lamothe,  President  of  Steam  and  Hot  Water  Fitters 
See  sketch  on  page  178. 

Walter  S.  Chase,  the  Secretary  of  Steam   Fitters'  Union  No  2o 

was  born  in  Eastford,  Conn.,  on  June  5th,   1870.  He  joined  his 


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local  on  October  IGth,  1895,  and  has  always  been  an  efficient  and 
earnest  officer  and  worker.  Mr.  Chase  is  married  and  resides  at  10 
West  field  street. 


JOSEPH  G.  LAMOTHE.  MARTIN  D.  HOL,MHS. 

Joseph  G.  Lamothe  was  born  in  the  city  of  Kingston,  Ont.,  Can., 
on  September  11th,  1867.  He  became  a  member  of  Steam  Fitters* 
Union  No.  25,  in  December,  1891,  and  has  held  the  office  of  Finan- 
cial Secretary  and  also  Vice-President.  He  represents  his  union  as 
a  delegate  in  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Lamothe  resides  at  9 
Cutler  street  and  is  married. 

Martin  D.  Holmes,  the  Treasurer  of  Steam  Fitters'  Union  No.  25, 
was  born  in  Cambridge,  Vt.,  on  May  27th,  1851.     He  joined  the 


MICHAEl,  F.  GARRETT. 


EDMUND  T.  HASTINGS. 


Union  in  February,  1896,  and  as  its  trusty  official  has  made  many 
friends.  Mr.  Holmes  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  is 
married  and  resides  at  25  Central  avenue,  Greendale,  Mass. 

Michael  F.  Garrett  was  born  in  Ireland  on  June  17th,  1876.     He 
is  the   President  of  Steam  Fitters'  Helpers  No.  35,  and  held  the 


OUR  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAL. 


241 


office  of  vice-president  of  Local  25.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  his 
union,  having  joined  it  in  1895,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Central 
body  for  three  terms.  He  was  first  chairman  of  the  Hall  Trustees, 
when  first  formed  in  1898,  and  is  a  delegate  there  now.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose  jurisdiction  this 
work  was  published.  Mr.  Garrett  is  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  H., 
Division  38,  and  also  the  Thomas  Francis  Meagher  Society.  He  is 
single  and  resides  at  17  Orchard  street. 


EDWARD  G.  BURKE. 


JAS.  EDWARD  SWEENEY. 


Edmund  T.  Hastings,  the  President  of  the  Amalgamated  Associa- 
tion of  Street  Railway  Employes  of  America.     See  sketch  page  173. 
Edward  G.  Burke,  the  Vice-President  of  the  Amalgamated  Asso- 


JAMES  J.  NOONAN.  j^MES  J.  PRICE. 

ciation  of  Street  Railway  Employes  of  America  No.  22,  was  born  in 
Worcester,  Mass.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Union  on  June  10th, 
1895,  and  is  also  a  delegate  to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Burke 
is  a  member  of  C.  Y.  M.  Lyceum  and  Division  34  A.  0.  H.  He  is 
married  and  resides  at  50  Chandler  street. 


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OFH  OFFICERS— BIOGRAPHICAT. 


local  on  October  KHh,  1895,  and  has  always  been  an  efficient  and 
earnest  officer  and  worker.  Mr.  Chase  is  married  and  resides  at  10 
West  field  street. 


JOSKPH  G.  LAMOTHE.  MARTIN  D.  HOl.MKS. 

Joseph  G.  Lamothe  was  born  in  the  city  of  Kingston.  Ont.,  (an., 
on  September  11th,  18G7.  lie  became  a  member  of  Steam  Fitters' 
Union  No.  2."),  in  December,  1891,  and  has  held  the  office  of  Finan- 
cial Secretary  and  also  Vice-President.  He  represents  his  union  as 
a  delegate  in  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Lamothe  resides  at  9 
Cutler  street  and  is  married. 

Mtirtin  D.  Holmes,  the  Treasurer  of  Steam  Fitters'  Union  No.  25, 
was  born  in  Cambridge,  Vt.,  on  May  27th,  1851.     He  joined  the 


MICHAEIv  F.  GARRETT.  EDMUND  T.  HASTINGS. 

Union  in  February,  1890,  and  as  its  trusty  official  has  made  many 
friends.  Mr.  Holmes  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  is 
married  and  resides  at  25  Central  avenue,  Greendale,  Mass. 

Michael  F.  Ciarrett  was  born  in  Ireland  on  June  17th.  1870.     He 
is  the   President  of  Steam  Fitters'  Helpers  No.  35,  and  held  the 


OUR  OFFICERS—BIOGRAPHICAL. 


241 


office  of  vice-president  of  Local  25.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  his 
union,  having  joined  it  in  1895,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Central 
body  for  three  terms.  He  was  first  chairman  of  the  Hall  Trustees, 
when  first  formed  in  1898,  and  is  a  delegate  there  now.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  History  Committee,  under  whose  jurisdiction  this 
work  was  published.  Mr.  CJarrett  is  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  H., 
Division  38,  and  also  the  Thomas  Francis  Meagher  Society.  He  is 
single  and  resides  at  17  Orchard  street. 


KDWARD  G.  BURKK.  JAS.  EDWARD  SWKKNKV. 

Edmund  T.  Hastings,  the  President  of  the  Amalgamated  Associa- 
tion of  Street  Railway  Employes  of  America.     See  sketch  page  173. 
Edward  G.  Hurke,  the  Vice-President  of  the  Amalgamated  Asso- 


JAMKS  J.  NOUNAN.  j^MES  J.  PRICE. 

ciation  of  Street  Railway  Employes  of  America  No.  22,  was  born  in 
Worcester,  Mass.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Union  on  June  10th, 
1895,  and  is  also  a  delegate  to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  Burke 
is  a  member  of  C.  Y.  M.  Lyceum  and  Division  34  A.  0.  H.  He  is 
married  and  resides  at  50  Chandler  street. 


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OUR  OFFICERS-BIOGRAPHICAL. 


James  Edward  Sweeney  was  born  in  Montreal,  Quebec,  Can.,  on 
March  2d,  1875.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Holy  Cross  College,  Farn- 
ham,  Quebec.  He  joined  the  Amalgamated  Association  of  Street 
Railway  Employes  of  America  on  February  7th,  1896,  and  is  the 
Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Union.  Mr.  Sweeney  is  single  and 
resides  at  22  Lincoln  Square. 


JOHN  S.  O'BRIEN. 

John  S.  O'Brien  was  born  in  Sutton,  Quebec,  Can.,  on  September 
15th,  1857.  He  joined  the  Amalgamated  Association  of  Street 
Railway  Employes  of  America  in  1891,  and  in  1894  was  President 
of  the  Union.  He  is  now  oflficiating  as  Treasurer,  and  is  also  a  del- 
egate to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  Mr.  O'Brien  is  single  and  resides 
at  13  Oak  avenue. 


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THE  OBJECT  OF  UNIONS. 


245 


The  Object  of  Unions. 


We  unife  because  we  must.  It  is  not  a  matter  of  sentiment  or 
charity,  ,t  is  one  of  business.  True,  tlie  blood  tingles  on  beholding 
the  brutalities  of  our  industrial  chaos;  but  wbik  this  is  an  incentive, 
It  is  not  tiie  foundation  of  our  unionism.  We  are  trade  unionist! 
because  there  is  no  other  agency  that  will  secure  for  us  good  wages 
a  short  workday,  partial  independence  in  the  present,  and  sometime,' 
we  hope,  complete. 

No  other  agency  I  A  bold  statement.  Can  we  prove  it? 
Problem :  To  secure  the  product  of  our  labor. 
Not  a  school  of  economic  thought,  and  there  are  many,  but 
acknowledges  the  necessity  of  union  to  attain  as  well  as  union  to 
hold  when  attained.  One  individual  cannot  lift  ten  hundred  weight  • 
ten  Kidividuals  can  do  so  with  ease.  History  avouches  it.  All  evi- 
dence and  experience  make  the  claim  of  unity  axiomatic. 

In  this  instance,  then,  a  union  of  what?  Of  all  classes?  Land- 
lords, hankers,  lawyers,  manufacturers,  merchants,  wageworkers 
such  as  make  up  a  political  party?  No;  the  first  two  exploit  usJ 
we  cannot  unite  with  them.  The  third  is  a  tool  of  patronage,  on 
sale;  he  will  "tear  a  passion  to  rags"  for  pelf-him,  too,  we  must 
exclude.  The  fourth  and  fifth,  fellow-sufferers  of  ours,  with  them 
we  would  combine  against  the  first;  but  they  will  not.  They  think 
they  can  get  more  by  keeping  us,  their  patrons,  down.  Are  we  left 
then,  to  unite  with  our  fellow-wageworkers? 

But  wait!  We  overlook  the  profession^ministers,  physicians 
«=holars,  editors.  Capable  men!  Intelligent,  conversant,  select' 
But  with  creditable  exceptions,  lukewarm  followers;  not  leaders 
Men  of  bottled  opinions. 

So,--wageworkers!  And  they?  Robbed,  deceived,  damned! 
Scoffed  at,  shot  at,  jailed !     Unanimous,  of  couree?    Men  of  similar 


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Makes  a  clean,  Blue  Flame  Gas. 

No  Smoke  or  Odor.      Absolutely  Safe. 

Only  three  simple  parts  to  the  burner. 
You  can  burn  either  Kerosene  Oil  or 
Gasoline. 

Simplest  of  all — Nothing  to  get  out  of 
order.  You  can  turn  the  flame  low, 
making  a  perfect  simmering  burner.  You 
cannot  do  this  with  a  wick  stove. 

The  Blue  Flame  has  every  advantage 
of  the  Gas  Range  at  one-fourth  cost. 

Quy  Furniture  Co.  Are  Sole  Agents  For  Worcester. 

The  New  National  Acorn  Range 

HAS  ENTIRE  NEW  FEATURES. 

Its  great  popularity  has  ensured  for  it  a  sale  of  many  thousands.  On  some 
streets  of  this  city  it  is  used  by  nearly  every  family. 

The  New  National  Acorns  far  excel  those  of  former  years.  The  great  con- 
veniences and  superior  workmanship  rivals  our  powers  of  description. 


Kindly  remember  that  we  are  sole  Worcester  agents  for  both  the 

ACORN  AND  CRAWFORD  LINES  OF  RANGES. 

Your  old  stove  or  Range  taken  as  part  payment.  Easy  terms.  A  discount 
for  cash — just  enough  to  equalize. 

Our  Stove  Department  occupies  store  No.  517  Main  street,  two  basements 
and  a  workroom. 

Of  all  visitors  at  our  stores  none  are  more  welcome  than  the  wage-earners. 

We  extend  to  YOVJ  a  cordial  invitation  to  examine  our  stock  ;  to  learn  of 
our  easy  payment  system  ;  to  ask  a  hundred  questions — all  of  which  costs  you 
nothing,  not  even  a  thank  you.  Neither  does  it  place  you  under  any  obligation 
to  purchase  of  us. 


EASY 

TERMS. 


/i^  'Tfiiicc  ENTimc  Slocks 
246 


517  to  527 

MAIN  ST, 


THE  OBJECT  OF  UNIONS.  247 

ideas,  purposes  and  means?     Hardly.     Rather,  men  of  vastly  .lifloi- 
ent  Ideas,  purposes  and  means,  to  l,c  similarizod  in  action      Men- 
progressive,  tardy,  commanding,  resisting,  Hbcn.l,  dogmatic,  heretical 
orthodox,   selfish,   radical,   conservative.     Opinions,   all  shades.     A 
union  of  "all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men." 

Manifestly,  it  is  impossible  fo  unite  these  on  any  composite  pro- 
gram..   As  well  talk  of  an  equilibrium  of  faculties,  as  Andrews  puts 
It,  despite  (he  law  of  individuality.     Impossible  in  any  event  but 
for-self  mterest-the  powerful  lever  of  mutual  want,  the  product 
of  their  labor.     There  is  no  diversity  of  opinion  on  this.     To  secure 
It  they  will  combine  on  certain  methods  within  certain  limits      Such 
methods  must  necessarily  be  simple,  and  (he  limits  narrow,  but  not 
incapable 'of  expansion.     They   will  not  be  as  narrow  as  the  nar- 
rowest, or  as  broad  as  the  broadest.     They  will  be  average,  with  an 
upward  tendency,  due  to  the  education  which  must  follow  exchange 
u    Ideas  and  contact.     The  standard  will  he  continually  advanced  bv 
the  dishonest  yielding  to  the  honest,  in  deference  to  that  natural 
iawlhe  sense  of  right:  the  enlightened  will  elevate  the  ignorant- 
the  bark  of  (he  radical,  answered  by  the  growl  of  the  conservative' 
w.     modify  both;  the  arbitrary,  the  resisting,  heretic  and  orthodox' 
will  temporarize.  agree  to  disagree  on  cherished  views  and  work  oii 
common  ground.     Any  attemp  to  overstep  this  limit  by  force  will 
r^ult  m  lukewarmness,  will  break  the  bond  of  Union.     Conscience 
Will  go  on  strike. 

The  maximum  of  organization,  of  "universal  variety  in  unitv  " 
can  onJy  be  secured  by  the  minimum  of  coercion;  and  no  matt;r 
what  the  organization  may  be,  it  can  accomplish  but  little  without 
numeneal  strength.     The  mass  will  rule  despite  tangents.     Such  is 
the  I,bor<y  of  society.     That  is  not  progress  which  breaks  from  the 
ranks  because  of  its  tardiness.     It  may  be  magnificent,  courageous 
but  ,t  IS  not  war.     Sooner  or  later  the  retreat  must  be  made.     The 
folly  of  such  is  apexed  when  they  attack  the  masses  of  their  fellow- 
suflFerers,  as  do  some  anarchists,  state  .socialists  and  others     The 
most  they  can  do  is  to  disrupt,  defeat  union,  and  then  later  when 


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HOUSE 
FURNISHERS! 


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1889 

1899 


THEN  AND  NOW 


TEN  YEARS  AGO  the  Guy  Furniture  Company  occupied 
three  rooms  at  No.  517  Main  Street; 

NOW  seventeen  floors,  517  to  527  Main  Street;  also  the  second 
and  third  floors  of  Allen  Building  on  Park  Street. 

Then  they  employed  three  men  only. 

NOW  their  pay  roll  figures  thirty-three. 

Then  they  bought  furniture  in  small  lots; 
NOW  furniture  in  carload  lots. 

Then  they  bought  five  ranges  at  a  time ; 
NOW  carloads  and  sometimes  more. 

Then  five  rolls  of  carpets  at  a  time; 

NOW  from  25  to  300  rolls  in  a  single  purchase. 

Then  they  employed  common  salesmen; 
NOW  specialists  in  every  department. 

Then  they  depended  on  local  trade; 

NOW  from  near  and  far.     They  have  shipped  goods  to  every 

New  England  State. 

These  things  do  not  come  by  chance.     There  is  reason  for  it. 

They  offer  advantages  equal,  if  not  superior,  to  any  housefur* 
nishers  in  Central  Massachusetts. 

Easy  payments.        

GUY  PURNITURE  CO. 


■    THE  OBJECT  OF  UNIONS.  249 

Wiser  and  ex,,Ioded,  get  off  the  union  track,  or  back'into  the  fold 
;."<1  teach,  if  their  foolhardiness  has  not  discounted  their  usefuhiess 
I  Ins  abdity  to  break   should  only  be  exercised   when  coercion   is 
attempted. 

So,  then,  ,vo  must  have  union,  which  must  be  numericallv  stron.. 
which  must  be  of  average  desire,  and  which  will  be  educational' 
flexible  an.l  hence  progressive.  Such  is  the  highest  form  of  orc^uni- 
=^at.on  that  man  can  achieve,  built  uj.ou  comn.on  ground,  abng 
which  Its  pathway  must  be  traced ;  and  such  is  the-Trade  Union 

We  will  secure  the  product  of  our  labor  by  the  progressive  trade 
union. 

Trade  unions  are  progressive?     Yes;  both  progressive  and  slow. 
S  ow  because  they  have  the  nia.ss  to  educate,  and  progressive  because 
of  their  education.     During  the  past  decade  the  trade  union  has 
found  "common  ground  "  upon  many  new  ideas.     Whether  thev  are 
all  correct  or  not  we  will  not  now  discuss.     Suffice  to  ..av  thev-  evi- 
dence flexibility,  expansion  and  the  progressive  tendency. "  Such  arc  • 
nationalization  of  what  are  thought  to  be   inevitable   monopolies' 
mmes    railroads,  telephones,  telegraph;  municipalization  of  street 
cars,  light,  water;  abolition  of  land  monopoly;  abolition  of  monev 
monopoly ;  direct  legislation  ;  Au.stralian  ballot  and  others      All  of 
these  has  the  trade  union  endorsed  and  advocated,  showing  conclu- 
sively Its  limits  are  not  fixed,  and  that  it  is  ready-must  adopt  that 
which  ,s  accessible  to  its  members.     Its  present  aims  and  methods 
are  well  known;  it  will  adopt  others  just  as  the  education   it  so 
widely  disseminates  levels  down  the  hills  and  fills  up  the  gaps  in  the 
minds  of  its  members.     Its  possibilities  are  bounded  onlv  bv   lul 
of  knowledge  and  the  non-unionist.     No  criticism  of  the  tnule"  union 
can  be  made  that  does  not  apply  to  the  whole  working  class.     When 
the  time  arrives  that  results  can  be  achieved  by  new  methods  thes 
will  not  be  new  to  the  trade  union. 
And  that  is  why  we  unite. 


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PHILOSOPHY  OF  THE  LABOR  MOVEMENT. 


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Philosophy  of  the  Labor  Movement. 


By  George  E.  McNeill 
The  phenomena  of  the  labor  movement  startles  the  rich,  the  com- 
fortable,  the  :nchffereut,  and  many  of  the  professional  classes,  because 
of  the  prevaUmg  ignorance  of  its  cause,  its  ,l.i,.ection  and  its  results. 
Ihe  thunder  of  the  denunciation  of  wage-slavery  startles  the  pos- 
sessor of  wealth,  opportunity,  and  position  into  fear  for  the  struc  ure 
of  soc.ety.      1  l.e  lightening  of  the  awakened  hate  of  the  unpossessed 
and  the  tremor  of  the  earthquake  of  despair,  are  to  the  lords  of  in- 
dustry commerce  and  finance,  as  unexplainable  as  natural  phenom- 
ena IS  to  the  savages  of  the  plains  an<l  jungles 

The  labor  movement  is  born  of  hunger;  hunger  for  food,  for 
shelter,   warmth,  clothing  and   pleasure.     This  hunger  provokes 
actn-.ties  for  the  possession  of  the  desired  objects.     The  congrega- 
tion of  n,en  develops  other  appetites  and  desires,  increasing  in  num- 
ber and  quahty ;  each  satisfaction  awakening  an  aspiration  for  the 
posse.,on  of  the  opportunities  and  enjoyments  of  a  higher  man! 
hood.     The  appetite  for  coarse  food,  rude  shelter  and  meagre  cloth- 
ing and  debasing  pleasures,  is  succeeded  by  the  aspiration  for  more 
and  better.     The  aspiration  for  the  better  creating  the  desire-  tl 
desire  forcmg  the  demand,  and  the  demand  compelling  the  s.pj  ^ 
Men  are  born  possessed  with  the  unalienable  right,  not  onlv  of  life 
and  hberty,  but  to  the  pursuit  of  happiness,  and  the  labor'  n.ovl 
rnent  ,s  the  outward  expression  of  the  instinctive  appreciation  of 
these  nghts.     In  savage  life,  the  organization  of  the  tribe-  and  in 
-ailed  civilized  life  the  organization  of  the  nation,  and  tl.     !  , 
nner  organizations,  religious,  fraternal  and  economic,  are  the  gro^hs 
from  the  root  of  human  hunger  for  the  attainment  of  the  hig 
happiness.  mgnci 

In  the  movement  of  humanity  toward  happiness  each  indivi.hu.l 
seeks  his  Idea,  often  with  stoical  disregard  of  the  happiness  of  o.herl 


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The  savage  man  delights  in  the  infliction  of  torture  upon  his  vic- 
tims. The  civilized  man  delights  not  in  the  torture  of  his  weaker 
brother,  but  is  satisfied  to  partake  of  the  results  of  the  torture  of 
those  who  are  made  contributors  to  his  pleasure. 

First  families  in  the  Eastern  States  were  participants  in  the  profits 
of  the  slave  trade,  and  first  families  of  llic  Southern  States  were  par- 
ticipants with  the  slave  pirates  of  the  East.  The  war  dance  of  the 
savages  about  the  burning  body  of  their  prisoner  is  the  same  in 
spirit  as  the  insane  conduct  one  witnesses  at  the  stock  exchange  in 
times  of  great  excitement. 

The  savage  man  enslaves  the  woman,  and  the  wife  who  should  be 
the  inspiration  of  the  home  becomes  the  drudge.  The  civilized  man 
enslaves  the  wife  or  daughter  of  a  less  fortunate  brother.  Tribe  wars 
against  tribe,  nation  against  nation,  race  against  race,  and  the  indi- 
vidual man  against  his  brother. 

Possession  is  said  to  be  nine  points  of  law;  in  nine  cases  out  of 
ten  it  is  an  evidence  of  a  theft  committed,  and  the  giving  back  of  a 
beggarly  part  in  the  sacred  name  of  charity,  is  a  confession  of  a 
guilty  responsibility. 

The  labor  movement  commenced  with  those  who  bv  the  crudest 
form  of  association,  agreed  to  mitigate  each  others  woes  and  to  resist 
the  common  oppressors.  It  has  from  most  remote  antiquity  de- 
veloped along  the  line  of  the  increasing  aspirations,  wants  and 
demands  of  the  most  moral  and  intelligent  of  its  classes. 

From  its  dawn  it  has  been  semi-religious,  semi-political  and  indus- 
trial. Its  religious  life  has  been  and  is  a  protest  against  the  niam- 
monized  interpretation  of  religious  truth,  yet  through  all  times  hold- 
ing to  those  principles  and  superstitions  that  were  protective  to  tlie 
interests  of  the  many. 

The  idealist  who  promised  future  rewards  and  blessings,  and  the 
practical  reformer  who  promised  immediate  relief  or  remedy,  found 
many  followers,  and  of  Him,  who  united  the  idealist  and  the  practi- 
cal reformer,  it  is  said:   ''The  common  people  heard  him  gladly." 


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254 


As  the  ranks  of  the  labor  movement  are  composed  of  the  con- 
trolled classes,  they  necessarily  are  opposed  to  their  controllers.  This 
fact  explains  the  reason  for  the  political  side  of  the  'movement, 
whether  under  monarchical  or  republican  forms  of  government. 

The  political  phase  is  more  distinctively  emphasized  where  the 
opportunity  for  the  expression  of  idealisms  on  political  economic 
lines  is  suppressed,  and  because  men  are  more  easily  united  against 
political  tyranny  than  they  are  against  the  more  dangerous  power 
of  economic  oppression.  Political  systems  are  national— the  wage 
system  is  universal.  The  industrial  phase  is  the  ground  work,  the 
prime  factor.  In  every  division  of  the  grand  army  of  labor,  its 
motto  and  war  cry,  everywhere  and  at  all  times  the  same,  ''More! 
More !     More !" 

In  religion  more  heaven,  in  politics  more  i)ower,  in  industry  more 
wealth;  but  it  is  always  bread  first,  not  that  by  bread  alone  men 
can  receive  the  fulness  of  life,  but  that  by  bread  first  the  other  good 
things  are  more  easily  obtainable. 

"Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread,''  is  the  universal  prayer.  The 
labor  movement  insists  not  only  upon  daily  bread  for  the  future,  but 
bread  for  this  day,  now. 

The  laborers  say,  we  want  the  kingdom  of  Heaven  (of  equity 
and  righteousness)  to  come  on  earth,  but  we  want  an  installment  of 
that  heaven  now.  In  these  days  they  are  not  crying  for  the  "  manna 
from  Heaven,"  but  they  do  protest  against  the  withholding  of  corn 
from  the  poor  and  the  robbery  of  those  who  toil. 

A  strike  for  more  wages,  more  leisure,  and  for  greater  happiness, 
is  not  a  phenomenon  to  be  investigated  in  the  study,  or  by  con- 
gressional committees,  as  a  comet  is  investigated  by  astronomers. 

The  strike  is  a  part  of  the  wage  system  just  as  much  as  the  brake 
is  a  part  of  the  necessary  equipment  of  a  railroad  train.  There  aie 
three  kinds  of  strikes— the  *'why,"  the  ''how,"  and  the  "when." 
The  first  asks  why  do  you  seek  to  reduce  wages;  the  second,  how  is 
it  you  are  making  so  much  money,  and  we  are  not;  and  the  third, 


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wIk'ii  shall  wc  have  an  advance  in  wages  and  a  reduction  in  the 
hours  of  labor,  and  a  fuller,  freer  life? 

A  strike  is  a  suspension  of  business  for  the  discussion   of  those 
questions,  and  it  is  the  only  way  to  compel   a  careful  consideration 
of  the  question.     The  brakes  stop  the  production  of  wealth,  that 
better  speed  and  safer  progress  may  come  through  the   increased' 
power  of  the  many. 

The  want  of  more  and  the  demand  for  more  is  the  active  motive 
of  human  advancement;  material  civilization  is  high  or  low  in  the 
ratio  of  the  satisfaction  of  this  demand.  Enlightened  civilization  is 
dependent  upon  the  right  direction  of  the  aspirations,  wants  and 
demands  of  the  many. 

Material  civilization  rests  upon  the  want  of  more,  regardless  of 
the  wants  of  others,  and  the  demands  for  more  at  the  cost  of  another's 
sacrifice.  This  civilization  gave  us  Egypt,  Rome,  (ireece  and 
Athens.  It  gave  us  the  slave  trade,  chattel  slavery  and  the  civil 
war.  It  gives  us  to-day,  this  wonderful  exhibition  of  a  labor  lob- 
bing  ])rosperity.  Magnificent  buildings,  time  cost,  saving  machinery 
and  process,  club  palaces  for  idlers  and  hovels  for  workers.  It  makes 
vice  profitable,  rewards  gambling  enterprises,  stultifies  the  moral 
sentiments,  laughs  at  religious  restraint  and  mocks  at  political 
rectitude. 

The  industrial  system  rests  upon  the  devil's  iron  rule:  ''Every 
man  for  himself"  It  is  an  unexplainable  phenomenon  that  those 
who  suffer  most  under  this  rule  of  selfishness  and  greed  should  or- 
ganize for  the  overthrow  of  the  d&vil's  system  of  government. 

The  organization  of  laborers  in  Trade  Unions  recognizes  the  fact 
that  mutualism  is  jireferable  to  individualism ;  that  the  golden  rule 
**Do  unto  others  as  you  would  that  others  should  do  unto  you," 
means  a  greater  return  of  happiness  to  each  through  the  co-opera- 
tion of  all. 

Examined  by  the  light  of  all  past  history,  individualism  as  a  factor 
in  the  progress  of  civilization  is  a  failure.  Millionaire  prosperity  is 
shortlived;  institutions  resting  upon  such  a  base  must  fall. 


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The  labor  movement  is  a  self-evident  fact;  it  sprang  from  human 
needs  and  aspirations,  and  grew  in  power  as  animal  needs  developed 
into  social  needs.  So  it  will  grow  until  the  needs  of  the  diviner  man 
become  the  potent  factor  in  the  development  of  the  full  measure  of 
man's  highest  possibilities. 

A  now  interpretation  of  the  old  truth,  "  That  the  chief  end  of 
man  i.^  to  glorify  God  and  to  enjoy  him  forever,"  reads  that  the  glori- 
fication of  God  is  in  the  re-instatement  of  man  to  the  likeness  of 
God;  that  to  enjoy  (iod  forever,  all  things  must  be  directed  toward 
the  securing  for  all  the  largest  measure  of  happiness. 

Economically  considered,  the  labor  movement  is  the  operation  of 
the  law  of  God  through  the  ages.  The  earth  is  the  Lord's  and  the 
fullness  thereof,  and  God  gave  command  over  all  the  things  of  the 
earth  to  man,  not  to  a  man  or  a  class  of  men,  but  to  all  men. 

A  man's  time  is  for  his  use  with  others  for  the  subordination  of 
nature  to  his  and  their  development;  and  human  development  will 
always  be  limited  or  handicapped  by  the  failure  to  develop  the  poorest 
ec|uipped  mortal. 

Men  who  are  compelled  to  sell  their  time  are  slaves  to  the  pur- 
chaser. Men  who  control  their  time  to  the  good  of  others  are  free 
men.  Freedom  means  ability  to  serve  others  with  others  for  the 
good  of  all.  Slavery  means  the  service  with  or  without  others  to  the 
pleasure  of  a  class  or  individual. 

Tracing  causes  to  the  depth  of  human  experience,  the  labor  move- 
ment rests  upon  the  truth  of  the  universal  sovereignty  of  man  over 
his  environment. 

The  man  who  produces  anything  that  is  for  the  good  of  man,  has 
a  natural  lien  upon  that  product,  and  a  social  lien  upon  the  product 
of  all,  as  all  have  a  social  lien  upon  his  product. 

The  law  of  the  labor  movement  may  be  slated  to  be: 

1.  Appetite. 

2.  Hunger. 

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Inordinate  appetite  begets  savagery,  and  will  commit  any  crime  to 
satisfy  its  lusts  even  temporarily;  but  as  tlie  satisfaction  of  lust  or 
inordinate  appetite  finally  destroys  the  appetite  and  tlie  pleasure  of 
its  satisfaction,  so  any  system  based  upon  the  motives  or  activities 
of  inordinate  desire  must  be  and  is  self-destructive. 

Appetites  directed  and  governed  not  by  others  through  force,  but 
through  others  by  love,  always  increases  the  pleasure  of  satisfaction 
and  the  power  of  the  renewal  of  desire. 

The  labor  movement  is  the  directing  power  over  the  natural  ten- 
dency toward  inordinate  lusts,  and  its  cry  for  more  and  more,  is  the 
evidence  of  the  renewed  appetite  that  gives  life. 

In  the  progress  of  the  movement  of  the  army  of  manual  laborers 
toward  the  promised  land  of  peace,  plenty  and  good  will ;  all  hinder- 
ing and  opposing  forces  are  contented  with  and  removed.  The  over- 
flowing streams  whether  of  humanity  or  of  water  will  sweep  all  be- 
fore  them. 

Laborers  restrained  by  chains  of  iron  or  of  superstition  or  of 
Ignorance,  or  by  social  ostracism,  or  political  or  industrial  depend- 
ence,  are  simply  a  pent  up  force  that  may  break  loose  with  unre- 
strained, destructive  power. 

The  appetite  of  to-day  is  for  better  food,  better  houses,  better 
clothes,  better  pleasures,  in  the  ratio  of  the  wisdom  of  the  direction 
and  power  of  membership  of  the  organized  labor  movement. 

Chnia  has  organization,  oath  and  superstition  bound,  but  no  organ- 
.ze<l  labor  movement.  Hunger  has  been  stultified  not  satisfied, 
compressed  not  expressed.  ' 

The  labor  moven,ent  of  Germany  and  France  is  now  emerging 
froin  force  repression.  If  its  expression  is  at  some  times  fantastical 
and  fanatical,  it  is  but  the  natural  result  of  the  rebound. 

In  England  and  these  United  States  we  find  the  highest  develop- 
ment of  the  labor  movement  on  practical  lines  of  idealistic  promise 
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Religion  that  once  assumed  the  dictator's  garb  now  gives  promise 
that  some  day  it  will  assume  the  attire  of  honorable  service  with 
and  for  humanity. 

The  potent  influences  of  moral  sentiment  are  active.  Labor 
organizations  are  broadening  and  advancing  on  historic  Trade 
Union  lines. 

The  movement  will  be  manifest  by  new  phenomena,  student  ob- 
servers will  see  the  relation  of  the  new  phase  to  the  old  law.  From 
raw  to  cooked  food;  from  nakedness  to  clothing  made  of  skins;  from 
caves  to  tents,  marking  the  fii-st  era-the  lowest  condition.  Then 
the  cultivation  of  food  products,  the  making  of  clothing  from  fibre, 
and  the  building  of  houses,  marking  the  second. 

The  congregation  of  the  people  brought  about  by  permanent  resi- 
dence  led  to  organizations  on  lines  of  mutual  interests,  and  the  order 
of  civilization  commenced. 

The  production  of  clothing  and  shelter  awakened  new  aspirations 
that  broadened  the  wants  and  stimulated  the  demands  for  the  higher 
degree  of  happiness. 

In  the  towns  where  the  processes  of  production  entered,  the  order 
of  division  of  industry  in  crafts  so  acted  and  re-acted  in  the  multi- 
plication of  wants,  that  steam  came  as  iiaturall  v  as  rain  falls,  to  speed 
the  processes,  and  then  the  moder.i  labor  movement  commenced 

lu  the  transition  from  hand  to  machine  methods,  laborers  were 
displaced  and  demoralized.     The  home  gave  way  to  the  factory 
The  ponderous  loom  could  not  be  worked  save  by  strong  muscular 
effort ;  but  the  power  loom  and  its  adjuncts  found  work  for  infants 
of  SIX  and  eight  years  of  age.     The  obstructive  and  destructive  force 
of  organized  laborers  led  to  legislative  interference  and  partial  relief. 
The  conflict  of  aggregation  against  aggregation,  competitor  against 
competitor,  interest  against  interest,  locality  against  locality,  now 
becoming  manifest,  will  solidify  laborer  with  laborer.  Union  with 
Union,  and  soon  for  the  fir^t  time  in  history,  the  wage  laborer's 
organizations  will  obtain  industrial  power  and  find  in  the  farm, 
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The  diversity  of  opinion  as  to  the  results  of  the  movement,  niul  as 
to  the  methods  and  measures  by  which  results  arc  to  be  reached  will 
not  divert  the  labor  movement  from  its  historical,  natural  course. 

The  cry  for  more  is  the  eternal  cry,  yesterday  and  to-day ;  it  is 
with  many  a  moan  of  sorrow,  with  many  a  bitter  cry  of  anger,  with 
some  the  natural  wish ;  to-morrow,  it  will  be  a  cry  of  joy. 

The  animal  man  first,  then  the  social  man,  next  the  moral  or  truly 
religious  man.  So  long  as  the  wage  system  shall  continue,  the  labor 
movement  will  progress  along  the  lines  of  more  wages,  more  leisure 
and  more  liberty. 

The  power  of  an  increased  common  wealth,  or  wealth  equitably 
distributed,  with  increased  common  intelligence  and  enlarged  moral 
perception  and  devotion,  that  comes  through  organization  for  mutual 
protection,  will  result  in  organizations  for  transportation  and  pro- 
duction.  The  organization  for  mutual  transportation  and  production 
may,  and  in  some  enterprises  will  be  general  or  national. 

The  philosophy  of  the  labor  movement  teaches  us  that  the  rule 
of  a  common  fatherhood  and  brotherhood  that  Christ  proclaimed  is 
God's  law;  that  the  wisest  of  self-interest  is  not  in  self-aggrandize- 
ment or  self-abasement,  but  in  mutual  advancement;  and  that  the 
movement  that  seeks  more  leisure  and  more  wages  will  continue 
until  method.s  and  interests  shall  unite  in  maintaining,  sustaining 
and  enlarging  human  happiness. 


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By  Samuel  Gompers. 
A  legend  of  ancient  Rome  relates  that  while  the  capitol  was  build- 
ing, there  came  one  day  to  the  tyrannical  king  Tarquin  the  Proud, 
a  poor  old  woman  carrying  nine  books  of  the  prophecies  of  the  Sibyl, 
which  she  offered  to  sell  for  three  hundred  pieces  of  gold.  The  king 
laughingly  bade  her  go  away,  which  she  did ;  but  after  burning  three 
of  the  books  she  returned  and  asked  the  same  price  for  the  remaining 
six.  Again  treated  with  scorn,  she  retired,  burnt  three  more  of  the 
volumes,  and  then  came  back  demanding  the  same  sum  for  the  three 
which  were  left.  Astonished  at  this  conduct,  the  king  consulted  his 
wise  men,  who  answered  him  that  in  those  nine  books,  six  of  which 
had  been  lost,  were  contained  the  fate  of  the  city  and  the  Roman 
people. 

To-day  the  marvellous  Sibyl,  who  grows  the  grain,  yet  goes  a-hun- 
gered;  who  w^eaves  the  silken  robes  of  pride,  yet  goes  threadbare; 
who  mines  the  coal  and  the  precious  ores,  yet  goes  cold  and  penni- 
less; who  rears  the  gorgeous  palaces,  yet  herds  in  noisome  basements, 
she  again  appears.  This  old,  yet  ever  young  Sibyl,  called  labor, 
offers  to  modern  society  the  fate  of  modern  civilization.  What  is 
her  demand?  Modern  society,  the  most  complex  organization  yet 
evolved  by  the  human  race,  is  based  on  one  simple  fact,  the  practical 
separation  of  the  capitalistic  class  from  the  great  mass  of  the  indus- 
trious. 

If  this  separation  were  only  that  resulting  from  a  differentiation 
in  the  functions  of  directions  of  industrial  operations  and  their  exe- 
cution in  detail,  then  that  separation  would  be  regarded  as  real, 
direct  progress.  But  the  separation  between  the  capitalistic  class 
And  the  laboring  mass  is  not  so  much  a  difference  in  industrial  rank 
as  U  is  a  difference  in  social  status,  placing  the  laborers  in  a  position 
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This  distinction,  scarcely  noticeable  in  the  United  States  before 
the  previous  generation,  rapidly  became  more  and  more  marked, 
increasing  day  by  day,  until  at  length  it  has  widened  into  a  veritable 
chasms-economic,  social  and  moral.  On  each  side  of  this  seem- 
ingly impassable  chasm,  we  see  the  hostile  camps  of  rich  and  poor. 
On  one  side,  a  class  in  possession  of  all  the  tools  and  means  of  labor; 
on  the  other,  an  immense  mass  begging  for  the  opportunity  to  labor. 
In  the  mansion,  the  soft  notes  betokening  ease  and  security;  in  the 
tenement,  the  stifled  w^ail  of  drudgery  and  poverty.  The  arrogance 
of  the  rich  ever  mounting  in  proportion  to  the  debasement  of  the 
poor. 

From  across  the  chasm  we  hear  the  old  familiar  drone  of  the  priests 
of  Mammon,  called  "political  economists."  The  words  of  the  song 
they  sing  are  stolen  from  the  vocabulary  of  science,  but  the  chant 
itself  is  the  old  barbaric  lay.  It  tells  us  that  the  present  absolute 
domination  of  wealth  is  the  result  of  material  and  invariable  laws, 
and  counsels  the  laborers,  wliom  they  regard  as  ignorant  and  mis- 
guided, to  patiently  submit  to  the  natural  operations  of  the  immu- 
table law  of  *' supply  and  demand."  The  laborers  reply:  They 
say  that  the  political  economists  nev^er  learned  sufficient  science  to 
know  the  difference  between  the  operation  of  a  natural  law  and  the 
law  on  petty  larceny.  The  day  is  past  when  the  laborers  could  be 
cajoled  or  humbugged  by  the  sacred  chickens  of  the  augers,  or  by 
the  bogus  laws  of  the  political  economists. 

The  laborers  know  that  there  are  few  historic  facts  capable  of  more 
complete  demonstration  than  those  showing  when  and  how  the  capi- 
talists gained  possession  of  the  tools  and  opportunities  of  labor. 
They  know  that  the  capitalists  gained  their  industrial  monopoly  by 
the  infamous  abuse  of  arbitrary  power  on  the  part  of  royal  and  fed- 
eral potentates.  They  know  that  by  the  exercise  of  this  arbitrary 
power  a  well  established  system  of  industry  was  overthrown  and  ab- 
solute power  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  selfish  incompetents. 
They  know  that  the  only  industrial  quialifications  possessed  by  these 
incompetents  was  the  ability  to  purchase  charters,  giving  the  pur- 


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chaser  a  monopoly  of  a  certain  trade  in  a  specified  city,  and  that 
the  price  of  such  charters,  the  blood  money  of  monopoly,  was  such 
paltry  sums  as  forty  shillings  paid  to  the  king  or  a  few  dollars  to 
congressional  (mis)  representatives.  They  know  that  by  the  un- 
scrupulous use  of  such  monstrously  unjust  privileges  competent 
master  workmen  were  deprived  of  their  hard-earned  rights  to  con- 
duct business,  and  were  driven  into  the  ranks  of  journeymen ;  that 
the  journeymen  were  disfranchised,  and  that  the  endowment  funds 
for  the  relief  and  support  of  sick  and  aged  members  of  the  guilds 
and  unions,  the  accumulation  of  generations,  were  confiscated. 
They  know  that  thus  did  the  capitalist  class  have  its  origin  in  force 
and  fraud,  shameless  fraud,  stooping  so  low  in  its  abject  meanness  as 
to  steal  the  Trade  Union's  sick,  superannuated  and  burial  funds. 

The  laborers  well  know  how  baseless  is  the  claim  made  by  the 
political  economists  that  the  subsequent  development  of  the  capital- 
ist class  was  spontaneous  and  natural,  for  they  know  that  the  capi- 
talists, not  content  with  a  monopoly  of  industry  enabling  them  to 
increase  the  price  of  products  at  will  and  reduce  the  wages  of  labor 
to  a  bare  substance  also,  procured  legislation  forbidding  the  disfran- 
chised and  plundered  workmen  from  organizing  in  their  own  defense. 

The  laborers  will  never  forget  that  the  coalition  and  conspiracy 
laws,  directed  by  the  capitalist  against  the  journeymen  who  had  sub- 
lime fidelity  and  heroic  courage  to  defend  their  natural  rights  to 
organization,  punished  them  with  slavery,  torture  and  death.  In 
short,  the  laborers  know  that  the  capitalist  class  had  its  origin  in 
force  and  fraud,  that  it  has  maintained  and  extended  its  brutal  sway, 
more  or  less  directly  through  the  agency  of  specified  legislation, 
most  ferocious  and  barbarous,  but  always  in  cynical  disregard  of  all 
laws  save  its  own  arbitrary  will. 

The  first  things  to  be  recognized  in  a  review  of  the  capitalistic  sys- 
tem are  that  the  possessors  of  the  tools  and  means  of  labor  have  not 
used  their  power  to  organize  industry  so  much  as  to  organize  domes- 
tic and  international  industrial  war,  and  that  they  have  not  used  the 
means  in  their  possession  to  produce  utilities  so  much  as  to  extract 


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273 


ceo.  c.  deaa^hurst  esthte, 

(Win.  A.  Dewhurst,  Mgr.),  Manufacturer  and  Dealer  in 

FINE  CARRIAGES  AND  WAGONS  OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION. 

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Our  Motto  is:    "  I,arge  Sales  at  Small  Profits." 

272 


profits.  The  i)roduction  of  profits,  instead  of  the  j^roduction  of  hon- 
est goods,  being  the  primary  and  constant  object  of  the  capitahstic 
system.  We  have  a  waste  of  labor  appalling  in  its  recklessness  and 
inhumanity,  a  misuse  of  capital  that  is  really  criminal  and  a  social 
condition  of  cheerless  drudgery  and  hopeless  poverty,  of  sickening 
apprehension  and  fathomless  degradation  almost  threatening  the 
continuance  of  civilization. 

The  state  of  industrial  anarchy  produced  by  the  capitalist  system 
is  first  strongly  illustrated  in  the  existence  of  a  class  of  wealthy 
social  parasites;  those  w^ho  do  no  work,  never  did  any  w^ork,  and 
never  intended  to  w^ork.  This  class  of  parasites  devours  incomes 
derived  from  many  sources;  from  the  stunted  babies  employed  in 
the  mills,  mines  and  factories,  to  the  lessees  of  the  gambling  hells 
and  the  profits  of  fashionable  brothels;  from  the  lands  whicli  the 
labor  of  others  has  made  valuable;  from  royalties  on  coal  and  other 
minerals  beneath  the  surface,  the  rent  paying  all  cost  of  the  houses 
many  times  over  and  the  houses  coming  back  to  those  who  never 
paid  for  them.  Then  we  have  the  active  capitalists — those  engaged 
in  business.  This  number  must  be  divided  into  two  classes;  the 
first  consisting  of  those  legitimately  using  their  capital  in  the  pro- 
duction of  utilities  and  honest  goods.  The  second,  those  misusing 
their  capital  in  the  production  of  'bogus'*  imitations  of  luxuries; 
of  adulterations,  and  of  useless  goods,  the  miserable  makeships 
specially  produced  for  the  consumption  of  underpaid  workers.  With 
this  ** bogus"  class  must  be  included  not  only  the  jerry  builders  and 
the  shoddy  clothiers,  but  also  the  quack  doctors  and  the  shyster  law- 
yers, also  the  mass  of  insurance  and  other  agents  and  middlemen. 
Coming  to  the  laborers,  we  must  regard  them  not  onl}^  according  to 
their  technical  divisions  as  agricultural,  mechanical,  commercial, 
literary  and  domestic,  with  numerous  subdivisions,  but  also  as 
economically  divided  in  three  classess — those  engaged  in  the  pro- 
duction of  utilities,  those  engaged  in  all  other  pursuits,  and  those 
constituting  the  general  '^ reserve  army*'  of  labor. 


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274 


The  first  econoniic  division  of  laborers  consisting  mainly  of  agri- 
culturists, mechanics  producing  utilities,  and  a  very  limited  portion 
of  those  engaged  in  commerce.  Upon  this  moiety  devolves  the  task 
of  supporting  itself,  the  parasitic  capitalists,  the  "bogus"  capitalists, 
the  workers  engaged  in  ministering  to  the  demands  of  the  parasitic 
capitalists,  the  workers  employed  in  the  ])roduction  of  "bogus"  and 
the  immense  reserve  army  of  labor;  also  the  army  and  navy,  the 
police,  the  host  of  petty  public  functionaries ;  also  the  stragglers  from 
the  reserve  army  of  labor,  including  the  beggars,  the  paupers,  and 
those  driven  by  want  to  crime. 

We  have  seen  that  the  possessors  of  the  tools  and  means  of  in- 
dustry liave  failed  in  establishing  order  in  their  own  ranks,  as  evi- 
denced in  the  class  of  parasitic  capitalists  and  a  class  of  "bogus" 
capitalists,  miserable  counterfeiters,  who  rob  the  wealth  i)roducersof 
the  just  reward  of  honest  work,  while  they  degrade  the  workers  by 
making  them  accomplices  in  their  fabrications,  then  rob  them  by 
compelling  them  to  buy  the  worthless  goods  they  have  fabricated, 
and  finally  poisoning  them  with  their  adulterations. 

While  failing  to  protect  society  in  its  consumptive  capacity,  the 
capitalist  class  has  shared  and  degraded  society  in  its  productive 
capacity. 

It  has  accomplished  this  result  by  establishing  alternating  periods 
of  enervating  idleness  and  debilitating  overwork,  by  undermining 
the  very  foundation  of  society,  the  family  life  of  the  workers,  in 
reducing  the  wages  of  the  adult  male  workers  below  the  cost  of 
family  maintenance  and  then  employing  both  sexes  of  all  ages  to 
compete  against  each  other. 

"Our  fathei'H  aix*  iimyiiig  fur  paiiix^r  pay, 

Our  mothers  wiih  death's  kiss  are  white ; 

Our  sons  are  the  rich  man's  serfs  by  daj', 
Our  daughters  his  slaves  by  night." 

And  finally,  by  refusing  to  recognize  the  workers  in  a  corporate  capac- 
ity, and  by  invoking  the  collusion  of  their  dependents,  the  judges 
and  the  legislators,  to  place  the  organized  outside  the  pale  of  the  law. 


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WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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DEAI^ER  IN 

CHOICE  RKNCY  GROCERIES, 

Teas,  Coffees  and  Spices.    Fruits  and  Vegetables  in  Season. 

FINK  ASSORTMENT  OF 

CHOICEST     ALES.    WINES    AND    LIQUORS. 

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276 


WHAT  DOES  LABOR  WANT? 


277 


Nevertheless,  in  spite  of  all  opposition,  the  Trade  Unions  have 
grown  until  they  have  become  a  power  that  none  can  hope  to 
annihilate. 

To-day  modern  society  is  beginning  to  regard  the  Trade  Unions  as 
the  only  hope  of  civilization;  to  regard  them  as  the  only  power 
capable  of  evolving  order  out  of  the  social  chaos.  But  will  the 
Sibyl's  demand  be  regarded  or  heeded  before  it  is  too  late?  Let  us 
hope  so.  The  Trade  Unions  having  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
origin  and  development  of  the  capitalist  class,  entertains  no  desire 
for  revenge  or  retaliation.  The  Trade  Unions  have  deprecated  the 
malevolent  and  unjust  spirit  with  which  they  have  had  to  contend 
in  their  protests  and  struggles  against  the  abuse  of  the  capitalist  sys- 
tem, yet  while  seeking  justice  have  not  permitted  their  movement 
to  become  acrid  by  a  desire  for  revenge.  Their  methods  were  always 
conservative,  their  steps  evolutionary. 

One  of  the  greatest  impediments  to  a  better  appreciation  by  the 
capitalists  of  the  devoted  elForts  of  the  Trade  Unions  to  establish 
harmony  in  the  industrial  relations,  has  been  the  perverted  view 
taken  by  capitalists  in  regarding  their  capital  as  essentially  if  not 
absolutely  their  own;  whereas,  the  Trade  Unions,  taking  a  more 
comprehensive  and  purer  view,  regard  all  capital,  large  and  small, 
as  the  fruits  of  labor  economics  and  discoveries,  inventions  and  insti- 
tutions of  many  generations  of  laborers  and  capitalists,  of  theoret- 
icians and  practitioners,  practically  as  indivisible  as  a  living  man. 

Another  impediment  to  the  establishment  of  correct  industrial  re- 
lations has  resulted  from  the  vicious  interference  of  the  political 
economists  with  their  unscientific  analogy  between  commercial  com- 
modities and  human  labor.  The  falsity  of  their  analogy  was  ex- 
posed in  1850  by  a  Parisian  workman  who  was  being  examined 
before  a  commission  api)ointed  by  the  French  government  to  inquire 
into  the  condition  of  the  working  people.  One  of  the  commis- 
sioners took  occasion  to  impress  upon  their  witnesses  that  labor  was 
merely  a  merchandise.  The  workman  replied,  if  ''merchandise  is 
not  sold  at  one  certain  time,  it  can  be  sold  at  another,  while  if  I  do 


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PATRICK  O'SHEK, 

DEADER  IX 

CHOICE  FANCY  GROCERIES, 

Teas,  Coffees  and  Spices.    Fruits  and  Vegetables  in  Season. 

KINK  ASSORTMENT  OF 

CHOICEST     ALES,    WINES    AND    LIQUORS. 

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303  niLLBURY  STREET.  WORCESTER,  HASS. 


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FOR  FAMILY  AND  MEDICINAL  USES. 


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Sweedish  Drinks. 


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277 


Neverthclfs.s,  in  spite  of  all  opposition,  the  Trade  Unions  have 
grown  until  they  have  become  a  power  that  none  can  hope  to 
annihilate. 

To-day  modern  society  is  beginning  to  regard  the  Trade  Unions  as 
the  only  hope  of  civilization;  to  regard  them  as  the  only  po\ver 
capable  of  evolving  order  out  of  the  social  chaos.  But  will  the 
Sibyl's  <lemand  l)e  regarded  or  heede<l  before  it  is  too  late?  Let  us 
liope  so.  The  Trade  Unions  having  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
origin  and  development  of  the  cai)itali.st  cla.ss,  entertains  no  desire 
for  revenge  or  retaliation.  The  Trade  Unions  have  deprecated  the 
malevolent  and  unjust  spirit  with  which  they  have  had  to  contend 
in  their  protests  and  struggles  against  tlie  abuse  of  the  capitalist  sys- 
tem, 3^et  while  seeking  justice  have  not  permitted  their  movement 
to  become  acii<l  by  a  desire  for  revenge.  Their  methods  were  always 
conservative,  their  steps  evolutionary. 

One  of  the  greatest  impediments  to  a  better  appreciation  by  the 
capitali.sts  of  the  devoted  ciForts  of  the  Trade  Unions  to  establish 
harmony  in  the  in<lu.strial  relations,  has  been  the  perverted  view 
taken  by  capitidi.sts  in  regarding  their  capital  as  essentially  if  not 
absolutely  their  own;  whereas,  the  Trade  Unions,  taking  a  more 
comj)rehensive  and  purer  view,  regard  all  capital,  large  and  small, 
as  the  fruits  of  labor  economics  and  discoveries,  inventions  and  insti- 
tutions of  many  generations  of  laborers  and  capitalists,  of  theoret- 
icians and  practitioners,  practically  as  indivisible  as  a  living  man. 

Another  impediment  to  the  establishment  of  correct  industrial  re- 
lations has  resulted  from  the  vicious  interference  of  the  political 
economists  with  their  unscientific  analogy  between  commercial  com- 
modities and  human  labor.  The  falsity  of  their  analogy  was  ex- 
posed in  1850  by  a  Parisian  workman  who  w^as  being  examined 
before  a  commission  appointed  by  the  French  government  to  inquire 
into  the  condition  of  the  working  people.  One  of  the  commis- 
sioners took  occasion  to  impress  upon  their  witnesses  that  labor  was 
merely  a  merchandise.  The  workman  replied,  if  "merchandise  is 
not  sold  at  one  certain  time,  it  can  be  sold  at  another,  wdiile  if  I  do 


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JOHN  A.  SHERMAN. 
Pres.,  Treas.  and  Mgr. 


JOSIAH  H.  CLARKE, 

Vice-Pres. 


FRANCIS  H.  BIGELOW. 

Sec'y. 


SHERMAN  ENVELOPE  CO., 

Manufacturers  of  All  Kinds  and  Sizes  of 


PRINTED  OR  PLAIN. 


SPECIAL  MACHINERY  FOR  MAKING 

METAL  CUSP  MERCHANDISE  AND  ODD  SIZE  ENVELOPES. 


PAPETERIES  AND  PAPER  BOXES. 


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HARRINGTON  5  RICHARDSON  ARMS  CO., 


MANUFACTURERS  OF 


FIRE  ARMS. 


No.  320  Park  Avenue,         Worcester,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 


WHAT  DOES  LABOR  WANT? 


279 


278 


not  sell  my  labor  it  is  lost  for  all  the  world  as  well  as  myself;  and 
as  society  lives  only  upon  the  results  of  labor,  society  is  poorer  to 
the  whole  extent  of  that  which  I  have  failed  to  produce." 

The  more  intelligent  will,  however,  before  long  begin  to  appreciate 
the  transcendent  importance  of  the  voluntary  organization  of  labor,, 
will  recognize  the  justice  of  the  claims  made  by  that  organization 
and  will  become  conscious  that  there  is  nothing  therein  contained  or 
involved  that  would  be  derogatory  to  the  real  dignity  and  interest  of 
all  to  voluntarily  and  frankly  concur  in. 

In  order  to  understand  the  wants  of  labor,  it  is  essential  to  con- 
ceive the  hypothesis  upon  which  the  claims  are  based,  hence  the 
necessity  of  presenting  the  foregoing. 

What  does  labor  want?  It  wants  the  earth  and  the  fuUnes  thereof 
There  is  nothing  too  precious,  there  is  nothing  too  beautiful,  too 
lofty,  too  ennobling,  unless  it  is  within  the  scope  and  comprehension 
of  labor's  aspirations  and  wants.  But  to  be  more  specific :  The  ex- 
pressed demands  of  labor  are,  first  and  foremost,  a  reduction  of  the 
hours  of  daily  labor  to  eight  hours  to-day,  fewer  to-morrow. 

Is  labor  justified  in  making  this  demand?  Let  us  examine  the 
facts : 

Within  the  past  twenty-five  years  more  inventions  and  discoveries 
have  been  made  in  the  method  of  producing  wealth  than  in  the  en- 
tire history  of  the  world  before.  Steam  power  has  been  employed 
on  the  most  extensive  scale.  The  improvement  of  tools,  the  conse- 
quent division  and  subdivision  of  labor;  and  the  force  of  electricity, 
so  little  known  a  few  years  ago,  is  now  applied  to  an  enormous 
extent.  As  a  result,  the  productivity  of  the  toiler  with  these  new  im- 
proved machines  and  forces  has  increased  so  manifold  as  to  com- 
pletely overshadow  the  product  of  the  joint  masses  of  past  ages. 
Every  effort,  every  ingenious  device  has  been  utilized  to  cultivate  the 
greater  productivity  of  the  worker. 

The  fact  that  in  the  end  the  toilers  must  be  the  great  body  of  the 
consumers,  has  been  given  little  or  no  consideration  at  all.  The 
tendency  to  employ  the  machines  continuously  (the  worker  has  been 


HeNRY  J.  HASS.  JR.. 

DKAI«ER  IN 

BReHO.    Pies    HMD    CAKeS. 

IXL.  BRSTXD 

HND  lA^eDDIISCG  CKKe  M  SPeCIHL-TV. 
122  and  124  Millbury  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

GEO.  O.  CROMB, 

DEALER  IN 

CHOICE  GROCERIES  AND  PROVISIONS 

Fruits   and    Vegretables   in    Their   Season. 

HKY  RND  GRKIN. 

Telephone  789-4.  154,  156  and  162  1-2  Chandler  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

HOTEL.  DU  NORD. 


AMERICAN    AND    EUROPEAN    PLAN. 


MARTIN  TRULSON, 


PROPRIETOR. 


39-41-43  SUMMER  STREET. 


WORCESTER.  MASS. 


280 


WHAT  DOES  LABOR  WANT? 


28L 


made  part  of  the  machines)  and  the  direction  lias  been  in  the  line 
of  endeavoring  to  make  the  wealth  producers  work  longer  hours. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  organized  labor  movement,  the  Trade 
Unions,  have  concentrated  all  their  forces  upon  the  movement  to 
reduce  the  hours  of  daily  toil  not  only  as  has  been  often  said  to  lighten 
the  burdens  of  drudgery  and  severe  toil,  but  also  to  give  the  great 
body  of  the  i)eople  more  time,  more  o[)portunity,  and  more  leisure, 
in  order  to  create  and  increase  their  consumptive  power;  in  other 
words,  to  relieve  the  choked  and  glutted  condition  of  industry  and 
commerce. 

Tlie  prosperity  of  a  nation,  the  success  of  a  people,  the  civilizing 
influence  of  our  era,  can  always  be  measured  b}'  the  comparative 
consuming  power  of  a  people. 

If,  as  it  has  often  been  said,  cheap  labor  and  long  hours  of  toil  are 
necessary  to  a  country's  prosperity,  commercially  and  industrially, 
China  should  necessarily  be  at  the  height  of  civilization. 

Millions  of  willing  heads,  hands  and  hearts  are  ready  to  frame 
and  to  fashion  the  fabrics  and  supply  the  necessities  as  well  as  the 
desires  of  the  })eople.     There  are  hundreds  of  thousands  of  our  fel- 
low men  and  women  who  cannot  find  the  opportunity  to  employ 
their  powers,  their  brain  and  brawn,  to  satisfy  their  commonest  and 
barest  necessities  to  sustain  life.     In  every  city  and  town  in  this 
broad  land  oi*  plenty,  gaunt  figures,  hungry  men,- and  women  with 
blanched  faces,  and  children  having  the  mark   of  premature  age, 
and  emaciated  conditions  indelibly  impressed  upon  their  counte- 
nances, stalk  through  the  streets  and  highways.     It  does  not  require 
a  philanthropist,  nor  even  a  humanitarian,  to  evidence  deep  concern 
or  to  give  deep  thought,  in  order  to  arrive  at  the  conclusion  that  in 
the  midst  of  plenty,  such  results  are  both  unnatural  and  wrong. 
The  ordinary  man  may  truly  inquire  why  it  is  that  the  political 
economist  answers  our  demand  for  work  by  saying  that  the  law  of 
supply  and  demand,  from  which  they  say  there  is  no  relief,  regulates 
these  conditions.     Might  we  not  say  fails  to  regulate  them? 


HOPE  CEMETERY  MONUMENTAL  WORKS. 

JOHN  J.  KITTREDCE, 

Manufacturer  of  and  Dealer  in  All  Kinds  of 

Cemetery  Work  in  Marble  and  Granite 

Office  and  Works,  No.  60  Webster  Street, 

Opposite  Entrance  to  Hope  Cemetery.  --  ,^^>-.  ^^.-._-_^ 

Tifce  Leicester  and  SpenSr  ECrtJi/car..  WORCESTER,  MASS. 


HENRY  C.  TAYLOR. 


WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN 


HAMMOND  C0;8  CHICAGO  DRESSED  BEEF.  HAMS.  ETC 

69  SHREWSBURY  STREET,  NEAR  UNION  DEPOT, 


P.  O.  BOX  IOI4. 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


ESTABLISHED  1864. 


INCORPORATED  1890. 


WHITE,  PEVEY  5  DEXTER  GO., 

PORK  PACKERS, 


And  Wholesale  Dealers  in 


PINE  PROVISIONS. 


13  AND  P5 

WORCESTER. 


MASS. 


WHAT  DOES  LABOR  WANT? 


283 


The  organized  working  men  and  women,  the  producers  of  the 
wealth  of  the  world,  declare  that  men,  women  and  children,  with 
human  hrains  and  human  hearts,  should  liave  a  better  consideration 
than  inanimate  and  dormant  things,  usually  known  under  the 
euphonious  title  of  ''Property."  We  maintain  that  it  is  both  inhu- 
man, barbaric  and  retrogressive  to  allow  the  members  of  the  human 
family  to  suffer  fi-om  want,  while  the  very  thing  that  could  and 
would  contribute  to  their  wants  and  comforts,  as  well  as  to  the 
advantage  of  the  entire  people,  are  allowed  to  decay. 

We  demand  a  reduction  of  the  hours  of  labor,  which  would  give 
a  due  share  of  work  and  wages  to  the  reserve  army  of  labor  and 
eliminate  many  of  the  worst  abuses  of  the  industrial  system  now 
filling  our  poor  houses  and  jails.  The  movement  for  the  reduction 
of  the  hours  of  labor  is  contemporaneous  with  the  introduction  of 
labor-saving  machinery,  and  has  been  the  most  faithful  of  all  reform- 
atory attempts  of  modern  times,  since  it  has  clearly  revealed  the 
power  of  the  working  people  to  realize  an  improved  industrial  sys- 
tem, and  raises  the  hope  that  we  may  yet  be  able  to  stem  the  tide  of 
economic,  social  and  moral  degradations,  robbing  those  who  work 
of  four-fifths  of  their  natural  wages,  and  keeping  the  whole  of  society 
within  a  few  months  of  destitution.  Labor  demands  and  insists 
upon  the  exercise  of  the  right  to  organize  for  self  and  mutual  pro- 
tection. The  toilers  want  the  abrogation  of  all  laws  discriminating 
against  them  in  the  exercise  of  those  functions  which  make  our 
organizations  in  the  economic  struggle  a  factor  and  not  a  farce. 

That  the  lives  and  limbs  of  the  wage-workers  shall  be  regarded  as 
sacred  as  those  of  all  others  of  our  fellow  human  beings;  that  an 
injury  or  destruction  of  either  by  reason  of  negligence  or  malicious- 
ness of  another,  shall  not  leave  him  without  redress  simply  because 
he  is  a  wage-worker.  We  demand  equality  before  the  law,  in  fact  as 
well  as  in  theory. 

The  right  to  appear  by  counsel  guaranteed  by  the  Constitution  of 
our  country  is  one  upon  which  labor  is  determined. 


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WHAT  DOES  LABOR  WANT? 


285 


To  prescribe  in  narrower  limits  to  the  wage-workers  and  urge  as  a 
special  plea  that  right  is  accorded  before  the  courts  is  insufficient. 
The  counsel  of  the  toilers  have  earned  their  diplomas  by  sacrifices 
made  and  scars  received  in  the  battle  for  labor's  rijrhts  rather  than 
the  mental  acquirements  of  legends  and  musty  precedents  of  semi- 
barbaric  ages.  The  diplomas  of  labor's  counsel  are  not  written  on 
parchment,  they  are  engraved  in  heart  and  mind.  Tlie  court  our 
counsels  file  their  briefs  in  and  make  their  pleas  for  justice,  right 
and  equality,  are  in  the  offices  of  the  employers.  The  denial  to 
labor  of  the  right  to  be  lieard  by  counsel — their  committees — is  a 
violation  of  the  spirit  of  a  fundamental  principle  of  our  Republic. 

And  by  no  means  the  least  demand  of  the  Trade  Unions  is  for 
adequate  wages. 

The  importance  of  this  demand  is  not  likely  to  be  under  estimated. 
Adam  Smith  says :  "  It  is  but  equity  that  they  who  feed,  clothe  and 
lodge  the  whole  body  of  the  people,  should  have  such  a  share  of  the 
produce  of  their  labor  as  to  be  themselves  tolerably  well  fed,  clothed 
and  lodged."  But  the  Trade  Unions  demand  is  for  better  pay  than 
that  which  Adam  Smith  deemed  equitable.  The  Trades  Unions, 
taking  normal  conditions  as  its  point  of  view,  regards  the  workman 
as  the  producer  of  the  wealth  of  the  world,  and  demands  that  w^ages 
(as  long  as  the  wage  system  may  last)  shall  be  sufficient  to  enable 
him  to  support  his  family  in  a  manner  consistent  with  existing  civ- 
ilization, and  all  that  is  required  for  maintaining  and  improving 
physical  and  mental  health  and  the  self-respect  of  human  beings; 
render  our  lives  while  working  as  safe  and  healthful  as  modern 
science  demonstrates  it  is  possible;  give  us  better  homes — just  as 
potent  a  cry  to-day  as  when  Dickens  voiced  the  yearnings  of  the  people 
a  generation  ago;  save  our  children  in  their  infancy  from  being 
forced  into  the  maelstrom  of  wage  slavery;  see  to  it  that  they  are 
not  dwarfed  in  body  and  mind,  or  brought  to  a  premature  death  by 
early  drudgery;  and  give  them  the  sunshine  of  the  school  aind  play- 
ground instead  of  the  factory,  the  mine  and  the  workshop. 


H.  R.  SINCLAIR. 


W.  K.  DUQl  ET. 


SINCLAIR  &  DUQUET, 

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GEO.  H.  BURTIS, 

Manufacturer  of  the 
Celebrated 

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And  Speciali.st  in  Hieh- 
Grade  AtiKling  Outfits. 

ANGLERS'  DEN" 

431  State  Mutual  Bldg., 
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GATES  LANE,  WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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DEALERS  IN 


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Every  Variety  of  Fruits  in  Season.    Clioice  Assortment  of 

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WHAT  DOES  LABOR  WANT? 


287 


We  want  more  school  houses  and  less  jails;  more  books  and  less 
arsenals;  more  learning  and  less  vice;  more  constant  work  and  less 
crime;  more  leisure  and  less  greed;  more  justice  and  less  i^veage; 
in  fact,  more  of  the  opportunities  to  cultivate  our  better  natures,  to 
make  manhood  more  noble,  womanhood  more  beautiful,  and  child- 
hood more  happy  and  bright. 

These,  in  brief,  are  the  primary  demands  made  by  the  Trade 
Unions  in  the  name  of  labor. 

These  are  the  demands  made  by  labor  upon  modern  societj^  and 
in  their  consideration  is  involved  the  fate  of  civilization;  for 

There  is  a  moving  of  men  like  the  sea  in  its  might, 

Tiie  grand  and  resistless  uprising  of  labor ; 
The  banner  it  carries  is  justice  and  right, 

It  aims  not  the  nmsket,  it  draws  not  the  sabre. 

But  the  sound  of  its  tread,  o'er  the  graves  of  the  dead, 
Shall  startle  the  world  and  fill  despots  with  dread  ; 
For  'tis  sworn  that  the  land  of  the  Fathers  shall  be 
The  home  of  the  brave  and  the  land  of  the  free. 


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56  Oread  St. 


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13  Dix  St. 


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CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 


289 


Constitution  of  the  United  States. 


CJreat  amusement  can  be  liad  by  asking  your  friends  some  ques- 
tion about  the  Constitution,  and  finding  out  how  little  is  known  about 
this  great  state  paper  by  them.  For  instance,  ask  them  to  name 
what  2)ower  the  Senate  and  Congress  have  (see  Sees.  YIL,  Article  I. 
and  VIII.,  Article  I.),  or  how  amendments  to  the  Constitution  are 
made  (Article  V.).  This  is  a  test  question  among  scholars  in  our 
colleges;  few  can  answer  correctly  or  in  full. 

Here  it  is  in  a  handy  shape,  ready  to  settle  all  arguments  that  are 
raised  regarding  its  contents: 


We,  the  people  of  the  United  States,  in  order  to  form  a  more  per- 
fect union,  establish  justice,  insure  domestic  tranquility,  i)rovide  for 
the  common  defence,  promote  the  general  welfare,  and  secure  the 
blessings  of  liberty  to  ourselves  and  our  posterity,  do  ordain  and 
establish  this  Constitution  for  the  United  States  of  America. 

ARTICLE  I. 

SECTION  I. 

All  legislative  powers  herein  granted  shall  be  vested  in  a  Congress 
of  the  United  States,  which  shall  consist  of  a  Senate  and  House  of 
Representatives. 

SECTION  II. 

1.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  be  composed  of  members 
chosen  every  year  by  the  people  of  the  several  States,  and  the  electors 
in  each  State  shall  have  the  (jualifications  requisite  for  electors  of 
the  most  numerous  branch  of  the  State  Legislature. 

2.  No  person  shall  be  a  representative  who  shall  not  have  attained 
to  the  age  of  twenty-five  year.*,  and  been  seven  years  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  and  who  shall  not,  when  elected,  be  an  inhabitant  of 
the  State  in  which  he  shall  be  chosen. 


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HOVEY'S 

FIR8T-CLA88  COMMON  VICTUALLER, 

20  MECHANIC  STREET. 

HENRY  A.  HOVEY,  Proprietor.  WORCESTER,   MASS. 


I 


P.  H.  LUMB. 

ALE  AND  CHOP  HOUSE 

6  MECHANIC  STREET,  NEAR  MAIN. 

iniORCESTER,  TU^HSS. 


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CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  IGNITED  STATES. 


291 


'K  Rc[>resentativcs  and  direct  taxes  shall  be  apportioned  among 
the  several  States  wliich  may*bc  included  within  this  Union,  accord- 
ing to  their  respective  numbers,  which  shall  be  determined  by  adding 
to  the  whole  number  of  free  persons,  including  those  bound  to  service 
for  a  term  of  years,  and  excluding  Indians  not  taxed,  three-fifths  of 
all  other  persons.  The  actual  enumeration  shall  be  made  within 
three  years  after  the  first  meeting  of  the  Congress  of  the  United 
States,  and  within  every  subsecjent  term  of  ten  years,  in  such  man- 
ner as  thev  shall  bv  law  direct.  The  number  of  representatives 
shall  not  exceed  one  for  every  thirty  thousand,  but  each  State  shall 
have  at  least  one  representative ;  and  until  such  enumeration  shall 
be  made  the  State  of  New  Hampshire  shall  be  entitled  to  choose 
three,  Massachusetts  eight,  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Planta- 
tions one,  Connecticut  five,  New  York  six.  New  Jersey  four,  Penn- 
sylvania eight,  Delaware  one,  Maryland  six,  Virginia  ten,  North 
Carolina  five,  South  Carolina  five,  and  Georgia  three. 

4.  When  vacancies  happen  in  the  representation  from  any  State 
the  executive  authoritv  theieof  shall  issue  writs  of  election  to  fill 
such  vacancies. 

5.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  choose  their  Speaker  and 
other  officers,  and  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  impeachment. 

SECTION   III. 

1.  The  Senate  of  the  United  States  shall  be  composed  of  two  Sena- 
tors from  each  State,  chosen  by  the  Legislature  thereof,  for  six  years, 
and  each  Senator  shall  have  one  vote. 

2.  Immediately  after  they  shall  be  assembled  in  consequence  of 
the  first  election,  they  shall  be  divided  as  equally  as  may  be  into 
three  classes.  The  seats  of  the  Senators  of  the  first  class  shall  be 
vacated  at  the  exi)iration  of  the  second  year,  of  the  second  class  at 
the  expiration  of  the  fourth  year,  and  the  third  class  at  the  expira- 
tion of  the  sixth  year,  so  that  one-third  may  be  chosen  every  second 
year,  and  if  vacancies  happen  by  resignation  or  otherwise,  during 
the  recess  of  the  Legislature  of  any  State,  the  executive  thereof  shall 


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make  temporary  appointments  until  the  next  meeting  of  the  I,egis- 
lature,  which  sliall  then  fill  such  vacancies. 

3.  No  person  shall  be  a  Senator  who  shall  not  huve  attained  the 
age  of  thirty  years,  and  been  nine  years  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States,  and  who  shall  not,  when  elected,  be  an  inhabitant  of  that 
State  for  which  he  shall  be  chosen. 

4.  The  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  shall  be  President  of 
the  Senate,  but  shall  have  no  vote  unless  they  be  equally  divided. 

5.  The  Senate  shall  choose  their  other  officers,  and  a  President  pro 
tempore  in  the  absence  of  the  Vice-President,  or  when  he  shall  exer- 
cise the  office  of  the  President  of  the  United  States. 

6.  The  Senate  shall  have  the  sole  power  to  try  all  impeachments 
When  sitting  for  that  purpose,  they  shall  be  on  oath  or  affirmation 
When  the  President  of  the  United  States  is  tried,  the  Chief  Justice 
shall  preside,  and  no  person  shall  be  convicted  without  the  concur- 
rence of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present. 

7.  Judgment  in  cases  of  impeachment  shall  not  extend  further 
than  to  removal  from  office  and  disqualification  to  hold  and  enjoy 
any  office  of  honor,  trust  or  profit  under  the  United  States;  but  the 
party  convicted  shall,  nevertheless,  be  liable  and  subject  to  indict, 
ment,  trial,  judgment  and  punishment,  according  to  law. 

SECTION    IV. 

1.  The  times,  places  and  manner  of  holding  elections  for  Senators 
and  Representatives  shall  be  prescribed  in  each  State  by  the  Legisla- 
ture thereof;  but  the  Congress  may  at  any  time  by  law  make  or  alter 
such  regulations,  except  as  to  the  places  of  choosing  Senators. 

2.  The  Congress  shall  assemble  at  least  once  in  every  year  and 
such  meeting  shall  be  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  unless'they 
shall  by  law  appoint  a  different  day. 

SECTION  V. 

1 .  Each  House  shall  be  the  judge  of  the  elections,  returns  and  quali- 
fications of  its  own  members,  and  a  majority  of  each  shall  constitute 
a  quorum  to  do  business;  but  a  smaller  number  may  adjourn  from 
day  to  day,  and  may  be  authorized  to  compel  the  attendance  of 


T.  F. 


Dealer  in 


Groceries  and  Provisions, 

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196  Cambridge  Street, 


WORCESTER,  MASS, 


REGAN'S  SAMPLE  ROOM  AND  CAFE. 

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our  SPECIALTIES:     OLD  E.  S.  P.  RESERVE,  OLD  C.  N.  A.   FEB, 

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Successors  to 

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No.  23  Mechanic  Street,  WORCESTER  MASS. 


THE  NATIONAL  B0ARDIN6,  HACK  AND  LIVERY  STABLE, 

D.  E.  WHEELER  &  CO.,  Proprietors. 

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absent  members,  in  such  manner  and  under  such  penalties  as  each 
House  may  provide. 

2.  Each  House  may  determine  the  rules  of  its  proceedings,  punish 
its  members  for  disorderly  behavior,  and,  with  the  concurrence  of 
two-thirds,  expel  a  member. 

3.  Each  House  shall  keep  a  journal  of  its  proceedings,  and  from 
time  to  time  publish  the  same,  excepting  such  parts  as  may  in  their 
judgment  require  secrecy;  and  the  yeas  and  nays  of  the  members  of 
either  house  on  any  question  shall,  at  the  desire  of  one-fifth  of  those 
present,  be  entered  on  the  journal. 

4.  Neither  House,  during  the  session  of  Congress,  shall,  without 
the  consent  of  the  other,  adjourn  for  more  than  three  days,  nor  to 
any  other  place  than  that  in  which  the  two  Houses  shall  be  sitting. 

SECTION  VI. 

1.  The  Senators  and  Representatives  shall  receive  a  compensation 
for  their  services,  to  be  ascertained  by  law  and  paid  out  of  the 
Treasury  of  the  United  States.  They  shall  in  all  cases,  except 
treason,  felony  and  breach  of  the  peace,  be  privileged  from  arrest 
during  their  respective  Houses,  and  in  going  to  or  returning  from 
the  same,  and  for  any  speech  or  debate  in  either  House  they  shall 
not  be  questioned  in  any  other  place. 

2.  No  Senator  or  Representative  shall,  during  the  time  for  which 
he  was  elected,  be  appointed  to  any  civil  office  under  the  authority 
of  the  United  States,  which  shall  have  been  increased  during  such 
time ;  and  no  person  holding  any  office  under  the  United  States  shall 
be  a  member  of  either  House  during  his  continuance  in  office. 

SECTION  VII. 

1.  All  bills  for  raising  revenues  shall  originate  in  the  House  of 
Representatives;  but  the  Senate  may  propose  or  concur  with  amend- 
ments  as  on  other  bills. 

2.  Every  bill  which  shall  have  passed  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives and  the  Senato  shall,  before  it  becomes  a  law,  be  presented  to 
the  President  of  the  United  States.  If  he  approve,  he  shall  sign  it; 
but  if  not,  he  shall  return  it,  with  his  objections,  to  that  House  in 


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affords  at  short  notice.  .  .  . 


HORACE  WYMAN,  President. 


F.  J.  KING.  PROP. 

Rates  to  suit  the  times. 

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which   it  shall  have  originated,  who  shall  enter  the  objections  at 
large  on  their  journal,  and  proceed  to  reconsider  it.     If,  after  such 
reconsideration,  two-thirds  of  that  House  shall  agree  to  pass  the 
bill,  it  shall  be  sent,  together  with  the  objections,  to  the  other  House, 
by  which  it  shall  likewise  be  reconsidered,  and  if  approved  by  two- 
thirds  of  that  House,  it  shall  become  a  law.     But  in  all  such  cases 
the  votes  of  both  Houses  shall  be  determined  by  yeas  and  nays,  and 
the  names  of  the  persons  voting  for  and  against  the  bill  shall  be 
entered  on  the  journals  of  each    House  respectively.     If  any   bill 
shall  not  be  returned  by  the  President  within  ten  days  (Sundays 
excepted)  after  it  shall  have  been  presented  to  him,  the  same  shall 
be  a  law,  in  like  manner  as  if  he  had  signed  it,  unless  the  Congress 
by  their  adjournment,  prevents  its  return,  in  which  case  it  shall  not 
be  a  law. 

3.  Every  order,  resolution,  or  vote  to  which  the  concurrence  of 
the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  may  be  necessary  (except 
on  a  question  of  adjournment)  shall  be  presented  to  the  President 
of  the  United  States;  and  before  the  same  shall  take  effect,  shall  be 
approved  by  him,  or,  being  disapproved  by  him,  shall  be  repassed 
by  two-thirds  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives,  according 
to  the  rules  and  limitations  prescribed  in  the  case  of  a  bill. 

SECTION  VIII. 

The  Congress  shall  have  power — 

1.  To  lay  and  collect  taxes,  duties,  imposts  and  excises,  to  pay  the 
debts  and  provide  for  the  common  defense  and  general  welfare  of  the 
United  States;  but  all  duties,  imposts  and  excises  shall  be  uniform 
throughout  the  United  States. 
,    2.  To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  the  United  States. 

3.  To  regulate  commerce  with  foreign  nations,  and  among   the 
several  States,  and  with  the  Indian  tribes. 

4.  To  establish  a  uniform  rule  of  naturalization,  and  uniform  laws 
on  the  subject  of  bankruptcies  throughout  the  United  States. 

6.  To  coin  money,  regulate  the  value  thereof,  and  of  foreign  coin, 
and  for  the  standard  of  weights  and  measures. 


CKLLAHAN  BROS., 

UNDERTAKERS 


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6.  To  provide  for  the  punislimeiit  of  counterfeiting  the  securities 
and  current  coin  of  the  United  States. 

7.  To  establish  post  offices  and  post  roads. 

tS.  To  promote  the  progress  of  science  and  useful  arts,  by  securing, 
for  limited  times,  to  authors  and  inventors  the  exclusive  right  to 
their  respective  writings  and  discoveries. 

9.  To  constitute  tribunals  inferior  to  the  Supreme  Court. 

10.  To  define  and  punish  piracies  and  felonies  committed  on  the 
high  seas,  and  offences  against  the  law  of  nations. 

11.  To  declare  war,  grant  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal,  and  make 
rules  concerning  captures  on  land  and  water. 

12.  To  raise  and  support  armies,  but  no  appropriations  of  money 
to  that  use  shall  be  for  a  longer  term  than  two  years. 

13.  To  provide  and  maintain  a  navy. 

14.  To  make  rules  for  the  government  and  regulation  of  the  land 
and  naval  forces. 

15.  To  provide  for  the  calling  forth  of  the  militiguto  execute  the  laws 
of  the  Union,  suppress  insurrections  and  repel  invasions. 

16.  To  provide  for  organizing,  arming,  and  disciplining  the 
militia,  and  for  governing  such  parts  of  them  as  may  be  employed 
in  the  service  of  the  United  States,  reserving  to  the  States  respect- 
ively the  appointment  of  the  officers,  and  the  authority  of  training 
th3  militia  according  to  the  discipline  prescribed  by  Congress. 

17.  To  exercise  exclusive  legislation  in  all  cases  whatsoever,  over 
such  district  (not  exceeding  ten  miles  square)  as  may,  by  cession  of 
particular  States,  and  the  acceptance  of  Congress,  become  the  seat 
of  Government  of  the  United  States,  and  to  exercise  like  authoritv 
over  all  places  purchased  by  the  consent  of  tlie  Legislature  of  the 
State  in  which  the  same  shall  be,  for  the  erection  of  forts,  magazines, 
arsenals,  dock-yards,  and  other  needfui  buildings;  and 

18.  To  make  all  laws  which  shall  be  necessary  and  proper  for 
carrying  into  execution  the  foregoing  powers,  and  all  other  powers 
vested  by  this  Constitution  in  the  Government  of  the  United  States, 
or  in  any  department  or  officer  thereof. 


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SECTION  IX. 

1.  The  migration  or  importation  of  such  persons  as  any  of  the 
States  now  existing  shall  think  proper  to  admit,  shall  not  be  prohib- 
ited by  the  Congress  prior  to  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  eight,  but  a  tax  or  duty  may  be  imposed  on  such  importation, 
not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  each  person. 

2.  The  privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  shall  not  be  sus- 
pended, unless  when  in  cases  of  rebellion  or  invasion  the  public 
safety  may  require  it. 

3.  No  bill  of  attainder  or  ex  pos^  facto  law  shall  be  passed. 

4.  No  capitation  or  other  direct  tax  shall  be  laid,  unless  in  propor- 
tion to  the  census  or  enumeration  hereinbefore  directed  to  be  taken. 

5.  No  tax  or  duty  shall  be  laid  on  articles  exported  from  any  State. 
No  preference  shall  be  given  by  any  regulation  of  commerce  or  revenue 
to  the  ports  of  one  State  over  those  of  another;  nor  shall  vessels 
bound  to  or  from  one  State  be  obliged  to  enter,  clear,  or  pay  duties 
in  another. 

6.  No  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury,  but  in  conse- 
quence of  appropriations  made  by  law,  and  a  regular  statement  and 
account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  all  public  money  shall 
be  published  from  time  to  time. 

7.  No  title  of  nobility  shall  be  granted  by  the  United  States ;  and 
no  person  holding  any  office  of  profit  or  trust  under  them,  shall, 
without  the  consent  of  Congress,  accept  of  any  present,  emolument, 
office  or  title,  of  any  kind  whatever,  from  any  king,  prince  or  foreign 
State. 

SECTION  x. 

1.  No  State  shall  enter  into  any  treaty,  alliance,  or  confederation  ; 
grant  letters  of  marque  or  reprisal ;  coin  money ;  emit  bills  of  credit ; 
make  anything  but  gqld  and  silver  coin  a  tender  in  payment  of 
debts;  pass  any  bill  of  attainder,  ex  post  facto  law,  or  law  impairing 
the  obligation  of  contracts,  or  grant  any  title  of  nobility. 

2.  No  State  shall,  without  the  consent  of  the  Congress,  lay  any 
imposts,  or  duties  on  imports  or  exports,  except  what  may  be  abso- 


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lutely  necessary  for  executing  its  inspection  laws:  and  the  net  \>vo- 
duce  of  all  duties  and  imposts  laid  by  any  State  on  imports  or 
exports,  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States; 
and  all  such  laws  shall  be  subject  to  the  revision  and  control  of  the 
Congress. 

3.  No  State  shall,  without  the  consent  of  Congress,  lay  any  duty 
on  tonnage,  keep  troops,  or  ships  of  war,  in  time  of  peace,  enter  into 
any  agreement  or  compact  with  another  State,  or  with  a  foreign 
power,  or  engage  in  war  unless  actually  invaded,  or  in  such  immi- 
nent danger  as  will  not  admit  of  delay. 

ARTICLE  II. 

SECTION  I. 

1.  The  executive  power  shall  be  vested  in  a  President  of  the 
United  States  of  America.  He  shall  hold  his  office  during  the  term 
of  four  years,  and,  together  with  the  Vice-President,  chosen  for  the 
same  term,  be  elected  as  follows: 

2.  Each  State  shall  appoint,  in  such  manner  as  the  Legislature 
thereof  may  direct,  a  number  of  electors  equal  to  the  whole  number 
of  Senators  and  Representatives  to  which  the  State  may  be  entitled 
in  the  Congress ;  but  no  Senator  or  Representative,  or  person  holding 
office  of  trust  or  profit  under  the  United  States  shall  be  appointed  an 
elector. 

3.  (Annulled,  see  amendments.  Article  XII.) 

4.  The  Congress  may  determine  the  time  of  choosing  the  electors, 
and  the  day  on  which  they  shall  give  their  votes,  which  day  shall 
be  the  same  throughout  the  United  States. 

5.  No  person  except  a  natural  born  citizen,  or  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  Constitution,  shall 
be  eligible  to  the  office  of  President;  neither  shall  any  person  be 
eligible  to  that  office  who  shall  not  have  attained  to  the  age  of  thirty- 
five  years  and  been  fourteen  years  a  resident  within  the  United 
States. 

6.  In  case  of  the  removal  of  the  President  from  office,  or  of  his 
death,  resignation,  or  inability  to  discharge  the  powers  and  duties  of 


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the  said  office,  the  same  shall  devolve  on  the  Vice-President,  and 
the  Congress  may  by  law  provide  for  the  case  of  removal,  death, 
resignation,  or  inability,  both  of  the  President  and  Vice-President, 
declaring  what  officer  shall  then  act  as  President,  and  such  officer 
shall  act  accordingly,  until  the  disability  be  removed,  or  a  President 
shall  be  elected. 

7.  The  President  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  his  services  a 
comj)ensation  which  shall  neither  be  increased  nor  diminished  dur- 
ing the  period  for  w^hich  he  shall  have  been  elected,  and  he  shall 
not  receive  w^ithin  that  period  any  other  emoluments  from  the  United 
States  or  any  of  them. 

8.  Before  he  enters  on  the  execution  of  his  office,  he  shall  take 
the  following  oath  or  affirmation  : 

"  I  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm)  that  I  will  faithfully  execute  the 
office  of  President  of  the  United  States,  and  will  to  the  best  of  my 
ability  preserve,  protect  and  defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States." 

SECTION  II. 

1.  The  President  shall  be  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  army  and 
navy  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the  militia  of  the  several  States 
when  called  into  the  actual  service  of  the  United  States;  he  may 
require  the  opinion,  in  writing,  of  the  principal  officer  in  each  of  the 
executive  departments,  upon  any  subject  relating  to  the  duties  of 
their  respective  offices,  and  he  shall  have  power  to  grant  reprieves 
and  pardons  for  offenses  against  the  United  States,  except  in  cases  of 
impeachment. 

2.  He  shall  have  power,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Senate,  to  make  treaties,  provided  two-thirds  of  the  Senators 
present  concur;  and  he  shall  nominate,  and  by  and  with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  the  Senate,  shall  appoint  ambassadors,  other  public 
ministers  and  consuls,  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  all  other 
officers  of  the  United  States,  whose  appointments  are  not  herein 
otherwise  provided  for,  and  which  shall  be  established  by  law ;  but 
the  Congress  may,  by  law,  vest  the  appointment  of  such  inferior 


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P.  GORMLEY, 

^PLORIST^ 

Nursery  and  Florists'  Stock  of  the  Choicest  Selection. 

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offieeis  as  they   may  tliink   proi)er  in  the  President  alone,  in   the 
courts  of  law,  or  in  the  heads  of  departments. 

The  President  shall  have  i)o\ver  to  fill  lip  all  vacancies  that  may 
happen  during  the  recess  of  the  Senate,  by  granting  commissions 
which  shall  expire  at  the  end  of  their  next  session. 

SECTION   III. 

He  shall  from  time  to  time  give  to  the  Congress  information  of  the 
state  of  the  Union,  and  recommend  to  their  consideration  such 
measures  as  he  shall  judge  necessary  and  expedient;  he  may,  on 
extraordinary  occasions,  convene  both  Houses,  or  either  of  them,  and 
in  case  of  disagreement  between  them,  with  respect  to  the  time  of 
adjournment,  he  may  adjourn  them  to  such  time  as  he  shall  think 
proper;  he  shall  receive  ambassadors  and  other  public  ministers;  he 
shall  take  care  that  the  laws  be  faithfully  executed,  and  shall  com- 
mission all  the  officers  of  the  United  States. 

SECTION  IV. 

The  President,  Vice-President  and  all  civil  officers  of  the  United 
States  shall  be  removed  from  office  on  impeachment  for,  and  convic- 
tion of  treason,  bribery,  or  other  high  crimes,  and  misdemeanors. 

ARTICLE  III. 

SECTION  I. 

The  judicial  power  of  the  United  States  shall  be  vested  in  one 
Supreme  Court,  and  in  such  inferior  Courts  as  the  Congress  may 
from  time  to  time  ordain  and  establish.  The  Judges,  both  of  the 
Superior  and  Inferior  Courts,  shall  hold  their  offices  during  good 
behavior,  and  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  their  services  a  com- 
pensation, which  shall  not  be  diminished  during  their  continuance 
in  office. 

SECTION  II. 

1.  The  judicial  power  shall  extend  to  all  cases  in  law  and  equity 
arising  under  this  Constitution,  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  and 
treaties  made,  under  authority ;  to  all  cases  affecting  ambassadors, 
other  public  ministers  and  consuls ;  all  cases  of  admiralty  and  mari- 
time jurisdiction;  to  controversies  to  which  the  United  States  shall 


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be  a  party ;  to  controversies  between  two  or  more  States ;  between  a 
^  State  and  Citizens  of  another  State;  between  citizens  of  different 
States;  between  citizens  of  the  same  State  claiming  lands  under 
grants  of  different  States;  and  between  a  State,  or  the  citizens 
thereof  and  foreign  State,  citizens  or  subjects.. 

2.  In  all  cases  affecting  ambassadors,  other  public  ministers  and 
consuls,  and  those  in  which  a  State  shall  be  a  party,  the  Supreme 
Court  shall  have  original  jurisdiction.  In  all  other  cases  before 
mentioned  the  Supreme  Court  shall  have  appellate  jurisdiction,  both 
as  to  law  and  fact,  with  €uch  exceptions  and  under  such  regulations 
as  the  Congress  shall  make. 

3.  The  trial  of  all  crimes,  except  in  cases  of  impeachment,  shall 
be  by  jury;  and  such  trial  shall  be  held  in  the  State  where  the  said 
crimes  shall  have  been  committed;  but  when  not  committed  within 
any  State,  the  trial  shall  be  at  such  place  or  places  as  the  Congress 
may  by  law  have  directed. 

SECTION  III. 

1.  Treason  against  the  United  States  shall  consist  only  in  levying 
war  against  them,  or  in  adhering  to  their  enemies,  giving  them  aid 
and  comfort.  No  person  shall  be  convicted  of  treason  unless  on  the 
testimony  of  two  witnesses  to  the  same  overt  act,  or  on  confession  in 
open  court. 

2.  The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  declare  the  punishment  of 
treason,  but  no  attainder  of  treason  shall  work  corruption  of  blood 
or  forfeiture,  except  during  the  life  of  the  person  attainted. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

SECTION  I. 

Full  faith  and  credit  shall  be  given  in  each  State  to  the  public  acts, 
records  and  judicial  proceedings  of  every  other  State.  And  the 
Congress  may,  by  general  laws,  prescribe  the  manner  in  which  such 
acts,  records  and  proceedings  shall  be  proved,  and  the  effect  thereof. 

SECTION  II. 

1.  The  citizens  of  each  State  shall  be  entitled  to  all  privileges  and 
immunities  of  citizens  in  the  several  States. 


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2.  A  person  charged  in  any  State  with  treason,  felony,  or  other 
crime,  who  shall  flee  from  justice,  and  be  found  in  another  State, 
shall,  on  demand  of  the  executive  authority  of  the  State  from  which 
he  fled,  be  delivered  up,  to  be  removed  to  the  State  having  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  crime. 

No  person  held  to  service  or  labor  in  one  State  under  the  law^s 
thereof,  escaping  into  another,  shall,  in  consequence  of  any  law  or 
regulation  therein,  be  discharged  from  such  service  or  labor,  but 
shall  be  delivered  up  on  claim  of  the  party  to  whom  such  service  or 
labor  may  be  due. 

SECTION  III. 

1.  New  States  may  be  admitted  by  Congress  into  this  Union;  but 
no  new  State  shall  be  formed  or  erected  within  the  jurisdiction  of  any 
other  State;  nor  any  State  be  formed  by  the  junction  of  two  or  more 
States,  or  parts  of  States,  without  the  consent  of  the  Legislatures  of 
the  States  concerned  as  well  as  of  the  Congress. 

2.  The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  dispose  of  and  make  all 
needful  rules  and  regulations  respecting  the  territory  or  other  prop- 
erty belonging  to  the  United  States;  and  nothing  in  this  Constitu- 
tion shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prejudice  any  claims  of  the  United 
States,  or  of  any  particular  State. 

SECTION    IV. 

The  United  States  shall  guarantee  to  every  State  in  this  Union  a 
Republican  form  of  government,  and  shall  protect  each  of  them 
against  invasion ;  and  on  application  of  the  Legislature,  or  of  the 
Executive  (when  the  Legislature  cannot  be  convened),  against  do- 
mestic violence. 

ARTICLE  V. 

The  Congress,  whenever  two-thirds  of  both  Houses  shall  deem  it 
necessary,  shall  propose  amendments  to  this  Constitution,  or  on  the 
application  of  the  Legislatures  of  two-thirds  of  the  several  States, 
shall  call  a  convention  for  proposing  amendments,  w^hich,  in  either 
case,  shall  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  part  of  this  Con- 
stitution, when  ratified  by  the  Legislatures  of  three-fourths  of  the 


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several  States,  or  by  conventions  in  three-fourths  thereof,  as  the  one 
or  the  other  mode  of  ratification  may  be  i)ropose(l  by  the  Congress ; 
provided  that  no  amendment  which  may  be  made  prior  to  the  year 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eight,  shall  in  any  manner  affect 
the  first  and  fourth  clauses  in  the  ninth  section  of  the  first  article; 
and  that  no  State,  without  its  consent,  shall  be  deprived  of  its  equal 
suffrage  in  the  Senate. 

akticlp:  VI. 

1.  All  debts  contracted,  and  engagements  entered  into,  before  the 
adoption  of  this  Constitution,  shall  be  as  valid  against  the  United 
States  under  this  Constitution  as  under  the  confederation. 

2.  This  Constitution,  and  the  laws  of  the  United  States  which  shall 
be  made  in  pursuance  thereof,  and  all  treaties  made,  or  which  shall 
be  made,  under  the  authority  of  the  United  States,  shall  be  the 
supreme  law  of  the  land ;  and  the  Judges  in  every  State  shall  be 
bound  thereby,  anything  in  the  Constitution  or  laws  of  anv  State  to 
the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

3.  The  Senators  and  Representatives  before  mentioned,  and  the 
members  of  the  several  State  Legislatures,  and  all  executive  and 
judicial  officers,  both  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  several  States, 
shall  be  bound  by  oath  or  affirmation  to  support  this  Constitution; 
but  no  religious  test  shall  ever  be  required  as  a  qualification  to  any 
office  or  public  trust  under  the  United  States. 

ARTICLE  VII. 
The  ratification  of  the  conventions  of  nine  States  shall  be  sufficient 
for  the  establishment  of  this  Constitution  between  States  so  ratifying 
the  same. 

Amendments  to  the  Constitution. 

ARTICLE  I. 
Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting  an  establishment  of  religion, 
or  prohibiting  the  free  exercise  thereof;  or  abridging  the  freedom  of 
speech  or  the  i)ress;  or  the  right  of  the  people  peaceably  to  assemble 
and  to  petition  the  Government  for  a  redress  of  grievances. 


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ARTICLE  TI. 

A  well-regulated  militia  being  necessary  to  the  security  of  a  free 

State,  the  right  of  the  ])eople  to  keej)  and  bear  arms  shall  not  be 

infringed. 

ARTICLE  III. 

No  soldier  shall,  in  time  of  peace,  be  quartered  in  any  house  with- 
out the  consent  of  the  owner;  nor  in  a  time  of  war,  but  in  a  manner 

to  bo  i)rescril)ed  by  law. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

The  right  of  the  people  to  be  secure  in  their  j)ersons,  houses, 
papers  and  etlects,  against  unreasonable  searches  and  seizures,  shall 
not  be  violated;  and  no  warrants  shall  issue,  but  upon  probable 
cause,  supjmrted  b}^  oath  or  affirmation,  and  particularly  describing 
the  place  to  be  searched  and  the  persons  or  things  to  be  seized. 

ARTICLE  V. 

No  person  shall  be  held  to  answer  for  a  capital  or  otherwise  infa- 
mous crime,  unless  on  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  Grand  Jury, 
except  in  cases  arising  in  the  land  or  naval  forces,  or  in  the  militia, 
when  in  actual  service  in  time  of  war  or  public  danger;  nor  shall 
any  person  be  subject  for  the  same  offence  to  be  twice  put  m  jeopardy 
of  life  or  limb ;  nor  shall  he  be  compelled  in  any  criminal  case  to  be 
a  witness  against  himself,  nor  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty,  or  property, 
without  due  process  of  law;  nor  shall  private  property  be  taken  for 
public  use,  without  just  compensation. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

In  all  criminal  prosecutions,  the  accused  shall  enjoy  the  right  to  a 
speedy  and  public  trial,  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the  State  and  dis- 
trict wherein  the  crime  shall  have  been  committed,  which  district 
shall  have  been  previously  ascertained  by  law,  and  to  be  informed 
of  the  nature  and  cause  of  the  accusation;  to  be  confronted  with  the 
witnesses  against  him;  to  have  compulsory  process  for  obtaining 
witnesses  in  his  favor ;  and  to  have  the  assistance  of  counsel  for  his 
defence. 


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ARTK^r.E  vir. 

In  suits  at  cc»inin<»n  Ihvv,  where  tlie  value  in  coniroversy  shall 
exceed  tweuty  dollars,  the  rights  of  trial  by  jury  shall  be  }u>\s«Mve(i, 
and  no  fact  tried  by  a  jury,  shall  be  otherwise  re-examined  in  any 
court  of  the  United  States,  than  according  to  the  rules  of  the  com- 
mon law. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 

Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  required,  nor  excessive  fines  imposed, 
nor  cruel  and  unusual  punishments  inflicted. 

ARTICLE  IX. 
The  enumeration,  in  the  constitution,  of  certain  rights  shall  not 
be  construed  to  deny  or  disparage  others  retained  by  the  people. 

ARTICLE  X. 
The  powers  not  delegated  to  the  United  States  by  the  Constitution, 
nor  prohibited  by  it  to  the  States,  are  reserved  to  the  States  respec- 
tively, or  to  the  people. 

ARTICLE  XL 

The  judicial  power  of  the  United  States  shall  not  be  construed  to 

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extend  to  any  suit  in  law  or  equity,  commenced  or  prosecuted  against 
one  of  the  United  States  by  citizens  of  another  State,  or  by  citizens 
or  subjects  of  any  foreign  State. 

ARTICLE  XII. 

SECTION  I. 

The  electors  shall  meet  in  their  respective  States  and  vote  by  ballot 
for  President  and  Vice-President,  one  of  whom  at  least  shall  not  be 
an  inhabitant  of  the  same  State  with  themselves.  They  shall  name 
in  their  ballots  the  person  voted  for  as  President,  and  in  distinct 
ballots  the  person  voted  for  as  Vice-President,  and  they  shall  make 
distinct  lists  of  all  persons  voted  for  as  President,  and  of  all  persons 
voted  for  as  Vice-President,  and  of  the  number  of  votes  for  each, 
which  lists  they  shall  sign  and  certify,  and  transmit  sealed  to  the 
seat  of  the  government  of  the  United  States,  directed  to  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Senate.     The  President  of  the  Senate  shall,  in  the  pres- 


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eiice  of  the  Seimt^  ami  House  of  KepresentHtives,  open  all  the  cer- 
tiH(tate8,  and  the  votes  shall  then  be  counted.  The  person  having 
the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  President  shall  be  President,  if 
such  number  be  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  of  Elecrtors 
appointed;  and  if  no  persons  have  such  majority,  then  from  the 
|>ersons  having  the  highest  numbers,  not  exceeding  three  on  the  list 
of  those  voted  for  as  President,  the  House  of  Representatives  shall 
choose  immediately  by  ballot,  the  President.  But  in  choosing  the 
President,  the  vote  shall  be  taken  by  States,  the  representation  from 
each  State  having  one  vote.  A  quorum  for  this,  purpose  shall  con- 
sist of  a  member  or  members  from  two-thirds  of  the  States,  and  a 
majority  of  all  the  States  shall  be  necessary  to  a  choice.  And  if  the 
House  of  Representatives  shall  not  choose  a  President  whenever  the 
right  of  choice  shall  devolve  upon  them,  bdbre  the  fourth  day  of 
March  next  following,  then  the  Vice-President  shall  act  as  President, 
as  in  the  case  of  the  death  or  other  constitutional  disability  of  the 
President 

SECTION  II. 

The  person  having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  as  Vice-President, 
shall  be  the  Vice-President,  if  such  number  be  a  majority  of  the 
whole  number  of  electors  appointed;  and  if  no  person  have  a 
majority,  then  from  the  two  highest  numbers  on  the  list  the  Senate 
shall  choose  the  Vice-President.  A  quorum  for  the  purpose  shall 
consist  of  two-thirds  of  the  whole  number  of  Senators,  and  a  majority 
of  the  whole  number  shall  be  necessary  to  a  choice. 

SECTION  III. 

But  no  person  constitutionally  ineligible  to  the  office  of  President, 
shall  be  eligible  to  that  of  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 

ARTICLE  XIII. 

SECTION  I. 

Neither  slavery  nor  involuntary  servitude,  except  as  punishment 
for  a  crime,  whereof  the  party  shall  have  been  duly  convicted,  shall 
exist  within  the  United  States  or  any  place  subject  to  their  jurisdic- 
tion. 


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MATTRESSES  MADE  OYER  AND 

FEATHERS  RENOVATED  A  SPECIALTY. 


Sole  Agent  for  the  Celebrated 


Itt'lM  Soothbridge  Street, 


Worcester,  Mass. 


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CONSTITT'TION  OF  THE  IGNITED  STATES. 


SKl'TION  II. 


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Congress  sliall  liave  power  to  enforce  this  Article  by  appropriate 
legislation. 

ARTICLE  XIV. 

SECTION   I. 

All  persons  born  or  naturalized  in  the  United  States,  and  subject 
to  the  jurisdiction  thereof,  are  citizens  of  the  United  States  and  of 
the  State  wherein  they  reside.  No  State  shall  make  or  enforce  any 
law  which  shall  abridge  the  privileges  or  immunities  of  citizens  of 
the  United  States.  Nor  shall  any  State  deprive  any  i>erson  of  life, 
liberty  or  property,  without  due  process  of  law,  nor  deny  to  any 
person  within  its  jurisdiction  the  equal  protection  of  the  laws. 

SPXTION  II. 

Representatives  shall  be  apportioned  among  the  several  States 
according  to  their  respective  numbers,  counting  the  whole  number 
of  persons  in  each  State,  excluding  Indians  not  taxed.  But  when- 
ever the  right  to  vote  at  any  election  for  electors  of  President  and 
AMce-President,  or  for  United  States  Re})resentatives  in  Congress, 
executive  and  judicial  officers,  or  the  members  of  the  Legislatures 
thereof,  is  denied  to  any  of  the  male  inhabitants  of  such  State,  being 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  and  citizens  of  the  L^nited  States,  or  in  any 
way  abridged,  except  for  participation  in  rebellion  or  other  crime, 
the  basis  of  representation  therein  shall  be  reduced  in  the  proportion 
which  the  number  of  male  citizens  shall  bear  to  the  whole  number 
of  male  citizens  twenty-one  years  of  age  in  such  State. 

SECTION  in. 

No  person  shall  be  a  Senator  or  Representative  in  Congress,  elector 
of  President  and  Vice-President,  or  hold  any  office,  civil  or  military, 
under  the  United  States  or  under  any  State,  who,  having  previously 
taken  an  oath  as  a  Member  of  .Congress,  or  as  an  officer  of  the  United 
States,  or  as  a  member  of  any  State  Legislature,  or  as  an  executive 
or  judicial  officer  of  any  State,  to  support  the  Constitution  of  the 
United    States,    shall   have   engaged   in   insurrection   or   rebellion 


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FREDERICK  A.  WALKER. 

HARNESS  AND  SADDLERY, 

No.  I^IH  7WTHIN  STREET, 


ln£ORCESTER,  TUtnSS. 


HENRY  P.  COOLEY, 

Successor  to  F.  F.  PHEI,PS.  Agent  for  the 

RICHARDSON  S  BOYNTON  CO.'S  FURNACES 

stove:  and  furnace  repairs. 

General  Jobbing  in  Tin,  Sheet  Iron  and  Copper, 

No.  145  MAIN  STREET,  WORCESTER,  MASS. 


INSIST 

ON    YOUR    DEALER    BUYING    HIS    BAR    GLASSWARE 
AND  BOTTLES  OF    ...    . 

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(OPPOSITE  UNION  STATION.) 

WE   HANDLE   NOTHING   BUT  UNION   TV^nOB  GOODS. 


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against  the  same,  or  given  aid  or  comfort  to  the  enemies  thereof; 
but  ( 'ongress  may,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  each  House,  remove 
such  disability. 

SECTION    IV. 

The  validity  of  the  public  debt  of  the  United  States,  authorized  by 
law,  including  debts  incurred  for  the  payment  of  pension  and  boun- 
ties for  services  in  suppressing  insurrection  or  rebellion,  shall  not  be 
questioned ;  but  neither  the  United  States  nor  any  State  shall  assume 
or  pay  any  debt  or  obligation  incurred  in  aid  of  insurrection  or 
rebellion  against  the  United  States,  or  any  claim  for  the  loss  or 
emancipation  of  any  slave;  but  all  such  debts,  obligations  and 
claims,  shall  be  held  illegal  and  void.* 

ARTICLE  XV. 

SECTION  I. 

The  rights  of  citizens  of  the  United  States  to  vote  shall  not  be 
denied  or  abridged  by  the  United  States,  or  by  any  State,  on  account 
of  race,  color,  or  previous  condition  of  servitude. 

SECTION  II. 

The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  enforce  this  Article  by  appro- 
priate legislation. 

♦The  "Carpet-Bag"  Debts  of  the  Southern  States.— The  "carpet-bag"  debts  of 
the  Southern  States  were  created  during  the  reconstruction  period,  when  the  South 
was  at  the  mercy  of  adventurers  from  the  North,  and  the  ranks  of  the  negro  popu- 
lation supported  and  protected  by  the  Federal  Government.  It  must  be  borne  in 
mind  that  the  debts  of  the  Southern  States,  contracted  from  1861  to  1865,  were 
repudiated  by  the  enforcement  of  the  XlVth  Amendment  to  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  Stjites,  so  that  the  indebtedness  above  referred  to  was  due  almost 
wholly  to  "carpet-bag"  financiering. 


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Naturalization  Laws. 

The  conditions  under  and  tlie  manner  in  which  an  alien  may  be 
admitted  to  become  a  citizen  of  tlie  United  States  are  prescribed  by 
Sections  2165-74  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  States. 

DECLARATION  OF  INTENTION. 

The  alien  must  declare  upon  oath,  before  a  circuit  court  of  the 
United  States,  or  a  district  or  supreme  court  of  the  Territories,  or  a 
court  of  record  of  any  of  the  States  having  common  law  jurisdic- 
tion, and  a  seal  and  clerk,  two  years  at  least  prior  to  his  admission, 
that  it  is  bona-fide  his  intention  to  become  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States,  and  to  renounce  forever  all  allegiance  and  fidelity  to  any  for- 
eign prince  or  State,  and  i)articularly  to  the  one  of  which  he  may  be 
at  the  time  a  citizen  or  subject. 

OATH  ON  APPLICATION  FOR  ADMISSION. 

He  must,  at  the  time  of  his  application  to  be  admitted,  declare  on 
oath,  before  some  one  of  the  courts  above  specified,  "that  he  will 
support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  that  he  absolutelv 
and  entirely  renounces  and  abjures  all  allegiance  and  fidelity  to 
every  foreign  prince,  potentate.  State  or  sovereignty,  and  particu- 
larly, by  name,  to  the  prince,  potentate,  State  or  sovereignty  of  which 
he  was  before  a  citizen  or  subject,"  which  proceedings  must  be 
recorded  by  the  clerk  of  the  court. 

CONDITIONS  FOR  CITIZENSHIP. 

If  it  shall  appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  court  to  which  the  alien 
has  applied  that  he  has  resided  continuously  in  the  United  States  for 
at  least  five  years,  and  within  the  State  or  Territory  where  such 
court  is  at  the  time  held  one  year  at  least;  and  that  during  that 
time  **  he  has  behaved  as  a  man  of  good  moral  character,  attached 


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HERBERT  8.    PARKER, 

Tailor, 
one  chatham  street, 

CORNER    OF    MAIN. 

WORCESTER,    MASS. 


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THE  BENNETT  PEDAL. 


Sectional  \'iew  of  adjusting 
attachment. 


This  pedal  has  important  advantages  over  any  pedal  in  the 
market. 

The  adjustment  is  new.  locking  with  a  peculiar  application 
of  a  set  screw,  which  allows  the  nut  to  be  taken  off  and  ad- 
justed with  one  wrench.    The  adjusting  cone  is  keyed  to  the 
shaft  and  cannot   turn,    but   slides  laterally,    preventing  the 
possibility  of  the  nut  and  cone  getting  loose,  screwing  up  and 
crushing  the  l)earings  as  in   many  cases  where  the  cone  is 
threaded  on  the  shaft.    The  pedal  wears  in  perfect  alignment. 
In  taking  up  the  wear  the  bearings  maintain  alignment  until 
worn  out.     By  the  old  method,  where  the  cone  or  case  is  turned 
to  take  up  the  wear,  the  pedal  when  adjusted  as  close  as  possi- 
ble will  move  tight  in  one  place  and  loose  in  another.    The 
shaft  is  comparatively  large  and  strong,  made  of  drop  forged 
steel  and  hardened. 

This  pedal  can  be  taken  off  as  easily  as  a  carriage  wheel,  with 

no  fear  of  loosing  the  balls  as  they  are  secured  by  ball  retainers. 

Considering  these  many  improvements,  we  can  safely  say 

this  is  the  most  durable  and  convenient  pedal  upon  the  market. 


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to  the  principles  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  well 
disposed  to  the  good  order  and  happiness  of  the  same,"  he  will  be 
admitted  to  citizenship. 

TITLES  OF  NOBILITY. 

If  the  applicant  has  borne  any  hereditary  title  or  order  of  nobility, 
he  must  make  an  express  renunciation  of  the  same  at  the  time  of 
his  application. 

SOLDIERS. 

•  Any  alien  of  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  and  upward,  who  has 
been  in  the  armies  of  the  United  States  and  who  has  been  honorably 
discharged  therefrom,  may  become  a  citizen  on  his  petition,  without 
any  previous  declaration  of  intention,  provided  that  he  has  resided 
in  the  United  States  at  least  one  year  previous  to  his  application,  and 
is  of  good  moral  character. 

MINORS. 

Any  alien  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  who  has  resided  in 
the  United  States  three  years  next  preceding  his  arriving  at  that  age, 
and  who  has  continued  to  reside  therein  to  the  time  he  may  make 
application  to  be  admitted  a  citizen  thereof,  may,  after  he  arrives  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  and  after  he  has  resided  five  years 
within  the  United  States,  including  the  three  years  of  his  minority, 
be  admitted  a  citizen;  but  he  must  make  a  declaration  on  oath,  and 
prove  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  court,  that  for  two  years  next  preced- 
ing it  has  been  his  bona-fide  intention  to  become  a  citizen. 

CHILDREN  OP  NATURALIZED  CITIZENS. 

The  children  of  persons  who  have  been  duly  naturalized,  being 
under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  at  the  time  of  the  naturalization 
of  their  parents,  shall,  if  dwelling  in  the  United  States,  be  con- 
sidered as  citizens  thereof. 

CITIZENS*  CHILDREN  WHO  ARE  BORN  ABROAD. 

The  children  of  persons  who  now  are  or  have  been  citizens  of  the 
United  States  are,  though  born  out  of  the  limits  or  jurisdiction  of 
the  United  States,  considered  as  citizens  thereof. 


ANDREW  P.  LUNDBORQ, 

BOOKS,  STATIONERY  AND  JEELRY, 

WATCHES,  CLOCKS.  RINQS.  SILVERWARE.  Etc.. 

No.  221  Main  Street,  WORCESTER,  MASS. 

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PROTECTION  ABROAD  TO   NATURALIZED  CITIZENS. 

Section  2,000  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  States  declares 
tliat  "all  naturalized  citizens  of  the  United  States  while  in  foreign 
countries  are  entitled  to  and  shall  receive  from  this  government  the 
same  protection  of  persons  and  property  which  is  accorded  to  native 
born  citizens." 

Homestead  and  Homesteaders. 

INFORMATION  FOR  ALL  WHO  CONTEMPLATE  TAKING  UP  GOVERNMENT  LAND. 

"1.  What  is  a  homestead?  It  is  a  farm  given  to  any  man  or 
woman  who  lives  on  it  and  cultivates  it  for  five  years.  We  say 
*given/  for  the  charges  are  only  about  ten  cents  an  acre — that  is,  the 
cost  of  surveying  and  recording,  amounting  in  all  for  one-fourth  of 
a  square  mile  to  eighteen  dollars  at  most,  and  four  dollars  of  this 
sum  is  not  payable  for  five  years. 

"2.  How  large  a  farm  is  a  homestead?  It  is  a  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres,  except  on  tracts  one-half  of  which  has  been 
granted  in  aid  of  railroads  or  other  public  improvements.  On  such 
tracts  the  homestead  is  no  more  than  a  half  the  usual  size,  unless 
the  homesteader  has  served  at  least  ninety  days  as  a  soldier.  In 
that  case  his  homestead  is  a  quarter-section  anywhere. 

"  3.  Who  may  become  a  homesteader?  Any  man  or  any  woman — 
that  is,  any  native,  of  legal  age,  and  any  foreigner  who  has  declared 
his  intention  to  become  a  citizen,  which  any  immigrant  may  do  the 
very  day  he  lands  in  America. 

"  4.  How  does  one  become  a  homesteader?  He  goes  to  any  United 
States  land  office,  where  he  has  free  access  to  maps  showing  all  the 
vacant  lots  in  the  neighboring  regions.  He  then  goes  and  picks  the 
one  he  likes  best,  returns  to  the  land  office,  makes  an  application, 
according  to  the  legal  forms  furnished  by  the  oflTicer  there,  for  that 
lot  as  his  homestead,  and  leaves  those  forms  for  record,  pays  at  most 
fourteen  dollars,  and  is  henceforth  monarch  of  all  he  surveys  on  the 
farm  of  his  choice.  But  the  homesteader  is  not  obliged  to  go  in  per- 
son to  the  government  land-office.  In  most  cases  he  can  ascertain 
from  local  land  agents  or  residents  what  lands  are  vacant,  and  then 


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make  his  application  for  the  homestead  lie  wishes  to  occupy,  before 
the  clerk  of  the  county  where  it  lies,  sending  with  it  an  affidavit 
with  his  reasons  for  his  not  appearing  in  person. 

"5  How  soon  must  a  homesteader  begin  to  occupy  his  land?  At 
any  time  within  six  months  after  his  application  is  put  on  record, 
and  he  may  journey  away  from  his  land  at  once,  and  provided  that 
he  fixes  his  residence  nowhere  else. 

"6.  Can  a  homesteader  become  the  full  owner  of  his  farm  sooner 
than  at  the  end  of  five  years?  Yes;  after  a  six  month's  residence, 
he  can,  at  any  time,  purchase  his  land  by  paying  the  government 
price,  the  maximum  of  which  is  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  and  the 
minimum  half  that  sum,  per  acre. 

**  7.  What  if  a  homesteader  is  in  debt?  His  homestead  is  exempted 
from  liabilities  for  any  debt  contracted  previous  to  his  perfecting  his 
claim  to  that  land ;  and  in  some  States  it  is  not  liable  to  attachment 
for  any  subsequent  debt. 

"8.  How  is  a  full  title  finally  obtained?  After  the  homesteader 
has  resided  on  his  land,  and  tilled  it  for  five  years,  if  at  any  time 
within  two  years  he  proves  that  fact  to  the  registrar  of  the  land  office, 
where  his  application  was  recorded,  that  officer  will  obtain  for  him 
from  Washington  a  full  title  to  his  land,  charging  him  only  a  fee  of 
four  dollars. 

"  9.  Is  not  one  man  as  good  as  another?  *  Yes,'  said  an  Irishman, 
*  and  a  great  deal  better.'  But  Congress  has  enacted  that  every  soldier 
is  equal  to  two  other  men.  The  act  was  approved  by  the  President, 
July  15th,  1870.  It  provides  that  every  person  who  has  served 
loyally  ninety  days  in  the  national  army  or  navy  is  entitled,  on  the 
terms  above  explained,  to  enter  and  receive  a  patent  for  one  whole 
quarter  section  of  land — that  is  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres — 
where  other  men  can  only  enter  eighty,  'of  the  alternate  reserved 
sections  along  the  lines  of  any  one  of  the  railroads  wherever  public 
lands  have  been  granted  by  acts  of  Congress.'  In  order  to  gain 
these  privileges,  the  soldier  must  pursue  the  same  routine  and  pay 
the  fees  as  il  he  were  a  civilian.     But  he  gets  twice  as  much  land." 


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It  will  be  decided  for  us  by  the  assistance  It  gives  In  fur- 
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CONSTITUTION 

MOCA  AND  JAVA, 

THE  BEST  COFFEE  MONEY  CAN  BUY. 


THE  QENUINE  IS  ALWAYS  SOLD  IN 

BLUE  BAGS, 


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BLUE  BAGS. 


E.  T.  SMITH  COMPANY, 

COFFEE  IMPORTERS,  ROASTERS  AND  JOBBERS. 

WORCESTER,  MASS. 


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Parliamentary  Rules  and  Usages. 

The  following  are  the  complete  rules,  in  a  plain  and  compact  form, 
for  conducting  a  public  meeting: 

Quorum — A  quorum  is  a  sufficient  number  of  the  members  of  an 
association  to  legally  transact  business.  Unless  a  quorum  is  present 
no  business  is  in  order,  except  to  adjourn.  A  majority  of  the  mem- 
bers constitute  a  natural  quorum,  but  the  by-laws  of  the  association 
may  prescribe  a  smaller  number. 

The  Chairman — It  is  the  duty  of  the  chairman  to  open  the  meet- 
ing at  the  time  fixed  upon,  by  taking  the  chair,  calling  the  house  to 
order,  to  announce  the  business  before  the  house  in  the  order  in 
which  it  is  to  be  acted  upon;  to  receive  and  submit  all  motions;  to 
put  to  vote  all  questions  which  are  regularly  moved,  or  which  neces- 
sarily arise  in  the  course  of  proceedings,  and  to  announce  the  result; 
to  restrain  every  one,  when  engaged  in  debate,  within  the  rules  of 
order;  to  enforce  the  observance  of  order  and  decorum;  to  appoint 
committees ;  to  authenticate  by  his  signature,  when  necessary,  all  the 
acts  and  proceedings  of  the  house,  and  generally  to  declare  its  will. 

He  may  speak  to  points  of  order  in  preference  to  others;  shall 
decide  all  questions  of  order,  and  if  the  house  is  evenly  divided  he 
may  give  the  casting  vote,  in  doing  which  he  may,  if  he  pleases, 
give  his  reasons. 

The  Clerk — It  is  the  duty  of  the  clerk  or  secretary  to  keep  correct 
minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  house ;  to  read  all  papers  when 
ordered,  and  for  this  purpose  he  should  always  rise;  to  call  the  roll, 
and  state  the  answer  when  a  vote  is  taken  by  yeas  and  nays;  to 
have  the  custody  of  all  papers  and  documents,  and  to  authenticate 
the  acts  and  proceedings  of  the  house  by  his  signature. 

Committees — Standing  committees  sit  permanently ;  special  com- 
mittees perform  only  some  particular  duty,  when  they  are  discharged. 
The  person  first  named  is  usually  regarded  aa  chairman,  but  this  is 
only  a  matter  of  courtesy ;  every  committee  has  a  right  to  select  its 
own  chairman.  Custom,  however,  has  practically  taken  away  this 
right,  and  it  is  considered  bad  form  to  elect  any  other  person  than  the 


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first-named  as  chairman.  The  mover  of  a  motion  to  commit  should 
be  placed  on  the  committee  and  first  named,  except  where  the  matter 
committed  concerns  him  personally,  In  the  appointment  of  the 
committee  no  person  directly  opposed  to  the  measure  committed 
should  be  named,  and  when  any  person  who  is  thus  opposed  to 
same  hears  himself  named  of  its  committee,  he  should  ask  to  be 
excused. 

The  chair  appoints  all  committees.  Committees  do  not  adjourn, 
but  when  they  have  conducted  their  deliberations,  should  rise  and 
report.  The  report  should  be  presented  by  the  chairman.  When 
the  report  is  received,  the  committee  is  dissolved  and  cannot  act 
further  without  new  power. 

Any  committee  required  or  entitled  to  report  upon  a  subject 
referred  to  them  may  make  a  majority  and  minority  report,  while 
any  member  of  such  committee  dissenting  in  whole  or  in  part,  from 
either  the  conclusion  or  the  reasoning  of  both  the  majority  and 
minority,  may  also  present  a  statement  of  his  reasons  for  such  dis- 
sent,  which  should  be  received  in  connection  with  the  reports. 

The  committee  of  the  whole  is  an  expedient  to  simplify  the  busi- 
ness of  legislative  bodies.  No  record  is  made  of  its  proceedings. 
The  presiding  officer  puts  the  question,  and  if  same  is  carried, 
appoints  some  person  as  chairman  and  then  vacates  the  chair. 

Motions — Propositions  made  to  a  deliberative  assembly  are  called 
"motions;"  when  the  proposition  is  put  to  vote  it  is  called  the 
"question."  Amotion  cannot  be  entertained  or  the  question  put 
until  the  same  has  been  seconded.  After  this  it  becomes  the  prop- 
erty of  the  house,  and  cannot  be  withdrawn  except  by  leave.  It 
must  be  in  writing  whenever  the  house  or  presiding  officer  require 
it,  and  must  be  read  when  any  person  demands  it  for  information. 

An  exception  to  the  rule  requiring  a  second  to  a  motion  is  made 
in  cases  when  the  proposition  is  to  proceed  with  or  to  execute  an  order 
of  the  house :  as  where  it  is  moved  to  proceed  with  an  order  of  the 
dpy,  or  where  a  call  is  made  for  the  enforcement  of  some  order  rela- 
ting to  the  observance  of  decorum. 


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Xo  motion  can  be  made  wliile  a  speaker  has  the  floor  nor  while 
another  motion  is  pending,  except  it  be  a  question  of  privilege. 

Amendments — A  motion  may  be  amended  by  inserting  or  adding 
words,  or  by  striking  out  words,  or  by  striking  out  and  inserting 
words.  An  amendment  takes  precedence  of  the  original  question 
and  must  be  first  decided.  So,  too,  an  amendment  to  an  amendment 
must  be  decided  before  the  amendment.  A  motion  may  be  made  to 
amend,  after  which  a  motion  will  be  to  amend  the  amendment,  but 
this  is  the  full  limit  of  the  rule  by  which  one  motion  may  be  put 
upon  another.  A  motion  to  amend  the  second  amendment  is  not  in 
order. 

Questions  of  privilege  cannot  be  amended,  except  that  a  motion 
to  postpone  can  be  amended  as  to  time. 

The  Question— The  question  is  first  to  be  put  on  the  affirmative 
and  then  on  the  negative  side,  the  vote  in  most  cases  being  by  oral 
response.  If  there  are  any  doubts  as  to  the  voice  of  the  majority, 
any  one  may  call  for  a  division.  In  all  cases  where  the  house  is 
equally  divided  the  question  is  lost,  unless  the  presiding  officer 
affirms  it  by  a  casting  vote. 

When  a  division  is  had,  those  in  the  affirmative  on  the  question 
should  first  rise  and  be  counted,  or,  if  there  still  be  a  doubt,  or  a 
count  be  called  for,  the  chairman  should  appoint  two  tellers,  one 
from  each  side,  to  make  the  count  and  report  the  same  to  the  chair- 
man, who  should  then  declare  the  same  to  the  house. 

In  small  matters  of  routine  business  or  trifling  importance,  such 
as  receiving  reports,  withdrawing  motions,  etc.,  the  presiding  officer 
may  suppose  the  consent  of  the  house  where  no  objection  is  expressed, 
and  need  not  give  them  the  trouble  of  putting  the  question  formally. 
A  question  should  always  be  stated  by  the  chair  before  it  is  put, 
after  which  it  is  open  to  debate.  Questions  may  be  stated  by  the 
chair  while  sitting,  but  he  should  always  rise  to  put  a  question,  and 
should  use  substantially  this  form :  "  As  many  as  are  of  the  opinion 
that  (as  the  question  may  be)  will  say  aye;''  and,  after  the  affirma- 
tive voice  is  expressed,  **As  many  as  are  of  a  contrary  opinion  will 
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After  a  question  has  been  put  it  is  not  debatable,  but  after  tlic 
affirmative  is  put  any  person  who  has  not  spoken  before  to  the  ques- 
tion may  rise  and  speak  before  the  negative  is  put. 

Division  of  Question — Any  person  may  call  for  the  division  of  a 
question  if  it  comprehend  propositions,  in  substance  so  distinct 
that,  one  being  taken  away,  a  substantive  proposition  shall  remain 
for  decision. 

When  a  question  is  divided,  after  the  question  on  the  first  part, 
the  second  is  open  to  debate  and  amendment. 

Privileged  Questions — When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no 
motion  shall  be  received  except  to  adjourn;  to  lay  on  the  table;  for 
the  previous  question ;  to  postpone  to  a  day  certain;  to  commit;  to 
amend;  to  postpone  indefinitely.  These  motions  have  precedence 
in  the  order  in  which  they  stand  arranged,  and  are  called  privileged 
questions. 

A  motion  to  adjourn  is  always  in  order,  and  takes  precedence  of 
all  other  motions,  and  an  order  of  the  day  takes  the  place  of  all 
questions  except  adjournment. 

When  the  matter  has  been  laid  on  the  table  it  may  be  taken  up  at 
any  time  afterward  and  considered,  but  not  at  the  same  meeting  or 
session  at  which  it  was  tabled.  Frequently  this  motion  is  made  to 
finally  dispose  of  the  matter,  and  it  always  has  this  effect  when  no 
motion  is  afterward  made  to  take  it  up.  The  proper  motion  for  pro- 
ceeding with  a  matter  that  has  been  ordered  to  lie  on  the  table,  is, 
that  the  house  do  now  proceed  to  consider  that  matter,  although  it 
would  be  proper  to  move  that  the  matter  be  taken  up  for  con- 
sideration. 

There  are  several  questions  which,  being  incidental  to  every  one, 
will  take  the  place  of  every  one,  privileged  or  not ;  as  a  question  of 
order  arising  out  of  any  other  question  must  be  decided  before  that 
question. 

A  motion  for  indefinite  postponement  is  generally  resorted  to  in 
order  to  suppress  a  question  or  prevent  its  coming  to  vote. 


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Previous  Question — When  any  question  is  before  the  house  any 
member  may  move  that  the  question  (called  the  main  question)  be 
now  put,  or  as  it  is  usually  termed,  may  move  the  previous  ques- 
tion. If  it  pass  in  the  affirmative,  then  the  main  question  is  to  be 
put  immediately,  and  no  further  debate  is  permitted. 

The  previous  question  being  moved  and  seconded,  the  question 
from  the  chair  should  be,  "Shall  the  main  question  be  now  put?" 
If  the  nays  prevail  the  main  question  remains  as  the  question  before 
the  house,  in  the  same  stage  of  proceedings  as  before  the  previous 
question  was  moved. 

Equivalent  Questions — Where  questions  are  perfectly  equivalent, 
so  that  the  negative  of  the  one  amounts  to  the  affiirmative  of  the 
other,  and  leaves  no  other  alternative,  the  decision  of  the  one  neces- 
sarily concludes  the  other.  Thus  the  negative  of  striking  out 
amounts  to  the  affirmative  of  agreeing;  and,  therefore,  to  put  a 
question  on  agreeing  after  that  of  striking  out,  would  be  to  put  the 
same  question  in  effect  twice  over. 

Question  of  Order — It  is  the  duty  of  the  chairman  to  decide  all 
questions  of  order  whenever  raised.  Upon  such  questions  no  debate 
or  discussion  is  in  order;  but  if  the  decision  is  not  satisfactory,  any 
one  may  object  to  it  and  appeal  to  the  house.  On  appeal  being  taken, 
the  question  should  be:  "Shall  the  decision  of  the  chair  stand  as 
the  judgment  of  the  house?"  Whereupon  the  question  may  be 
debated  and  discussed  the  same  as  any  other  question. 

Commitment — Any  measure  may  be  referred  to  a  committee,  on 
motion.  This  motion  stands  in  the  same  degree  with  the  previous 
question  and  postponement,  and,  if  first  made,  takes  precedence  of 
them.  A  motion  to  commit  may  be  amended  by  the  substitution  of 
one  kind  of  committee  for  another,  or  by  enlarging  or  diminishing 
the  number  of  members  of  the  committee,  as  originally  proposed,  or 
by  instructions  to  the  committee. 

After  a  measure  has  been  committed  and  reported,  it  should  not, 
in  an  ordinary  course,  be  recommitted,  but  in  cases  of  importance, 
and  for  special  reasons,  it  is  sometimes  recommited,  and  usually  to 
the  same  committee. 


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among  many  hundreds  of  business  firm.s.    A  year  student  at  this  College  only  can  be  ^th  a  bu.i 
ness  firm's  bookkeeper  and  stenographer.  uc  win  a  dusi 

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Reconsidenition — Wlieii  a  motion  or  question  shall  liave  been 
determined,  either  in  the  affirmative  or  negative,  it  is  always  in  order 
for  any  ono  who  voted  with  the  majority,  or  in  case  the  vote  was 
equally  divided,  for  one  who  voted  in  tfie  negative,  to  move  for  a 
reconsideration  thereof.  Such  motion  must  be  made  at  the  same 
meeting  at  which  the  former  vote  was  taken.  A  motion  to  recon- 
sider, being  put  and  lost,  cannot  be  renewed. 

-  Undebat-able  Motions — A  motion  to  adjourn,  to  lay  on  the  table, 
and  a  call  for  the  previous  question,  must  be  decided  without  debate. 
And  all  incidental  questions  of  order,  arising  after  a  motion  is  made 
for  either  of  the  foregoing  questions,  must  be  decided,  whether  to 
appeal  or  otherwise,  M^ithout  debate. 

Order  in  Debate — When  a  person  means  to  speak  he  is  to  stand  up 
in  his  place,  uncovered,  and  address  himself  to  the  chair,  who  calls 
him  by  name,  that  all  may  take  notice  who  it  is  that  speaks.  A 
person  who  is  indisposed  may  be  indulged  to  speak  sitting. 

When  a  person  rises  to  speak  no  question  is  to  be  put,  but  he  is  to 
be  heard  undisturbed,  unless  overruled. 

If  two  or  more  rise  to  speak  nearly  together,  the  chair  determines 
who  was  first  up  and  calls  him  by  name,  whereupon  he  proceeds, 
unless  he  voluntarily  sits  down  and  yields  the  floor  to  the  other. 

No  one  may  speak  more  than  twice  to  the  same  question  without 
the  consent  of  the  house,  except  merely  to  explain  himself  in  some 
material  part  of  his  speech,  or  to  the  manner  of  the  words  in  ques- 
tion, keeping  himself  to  that  only,  and  not  going  into  the  merits  of  it. 

If  the  chairman  rises  to  speak,  the  person  standing  must  sit  down, 
that  the  chair  may  be  first  heard. 

No  one  is  to  speak  impertinently,  or  beside  the  question,  or  to  use 
indecent  language  against  the  proceedings  of  the  house.  Nor  should 
a  person  speaking  mention  another  then  present  by  his  name,  but 
should  describe  by  his  seat,  or  as  ''the  gentleman  that  spoke  last," 
or,  "on  the  other  side  of  the  question,"  etc. 

'  Any  one  when  called  to  order  by  another,  or  by  the  chair,  must 
sit  down  and  not  proceed  without  leave  until  the  question  of  order 
shall  have  been  decided  by  the  chair. 


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ARCHITECT. 

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While  the  presiding  officer  is  addressing  the  house  or  putting  a 
question,  no  one  shall  cross  the  floor  or  leave  the  room ;  nor  while 
another  is  speaking,  walk  between  him  and  the  chair. 

Adjournment — A  motion  to  adjourn  is  not  susceptible  of  amend- 
ment. If  it  is  desirable  to  adjourn  to  any  particular  place  or  time, 
this  may  be  accomplished  by  a  previous  resolution  to  that  effect. 

United  States  Government  and  Religion. 

The  founders  of  our  Government  were  wise  enough  to  leave  the 
people  to  arrange  religious  questions  according  to  their  pleasure. 
They  were  not  unbelievers  in  religion,  but  thought,  as  most  of  our 
citizens  now  think,  that  entire  liberty  should  be  left  to  all  to  act  in 
religious  matters  as  they  felt  able  and  inclined.  All  religious  sys- 
tems are  equally  tolerated — no  Government  support  is  given  specially 
to  any.  Some  people  do  not  approve  of  religious  oaths  (an  affirm- 
ation in  the  name  of  God,  or  calling  God  to  witness  that  what  is 
said  is  true),  and  from  such  persons  a  solemn  affirmation  or  state- 
ment answers  the  purposes  of  the  law. 

The  Constitution  prohibits  Congress  from  making  laws  respecting 
the  establishment  of  a  State  religion,  or  interfering  with  the  free 
exercise  of  it,  and  declares  that  "no  religious  test  shall  ever  be 
required  as  a  qualification  to  any  office  or  public  trust,  under  the 
United  States."  The  President  recommends  a  national  thanksgiving 
to  God  once  a  year,  for  the  blessings  we  enjoy,  and  sometimes  pro- 
claims a  day  of  fasting  and  i)rayer.  It  shows  all  due  respect  to  the 
religious  beliefs  among  the  people,  but  leaves  all  free  to  practice  any 
form  of  it,  or  to  reject  them  all. 


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SOUTBGATE  &  SOUTHfiATE, 

COUNSELLORS  IN  PATENT  CASES 


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REGISTERED  SOLICITORS  OF  PATENTS, 


BURNSIDE  BUILDING, 


339  MAIN  STREET. 


iniORCESTER.  TWTHSS. 


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LOUIS  W.  SOUTHGATE, 
PHILIP  W.  SOUTHGATE 


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LKTB  EXnTVCiNBRS 

U.  S.  PKTBNT   OPPICB. 


A.  G.  HILDRETH. 


BSTABLISHED  1882. 


W.  J.  HAI.I,. 


A.  Q.  HILDRETH  &  CO,, 


Manufacturers  of 


OVERALLS,  SHIRTS,  FROCKS,  ETC. 

34-44  Southbridge  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

RUBBER  STAMPS, 


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Patents. 

WHO  MAY  OIJTAIX  A   PATENT. 

Any  person  who  has  invented  or  discovered  any  new  and  useful 
art,  machine,  manufacture  or  composition  of  matter,  or  any  new  and 
useful  improvement  thereof,  not  patented  or  described  in  any  printed 
l)ublication  in  any  country  before  his  invention  or  discovery,  and 
not  in  i)ublic  use  or  on  sale  more  than  two  years  prior  to  his  appli- 
cation, may  obtain  a  patent  therefor. 

WHAT  IS  PATENTABLE. 

Any  invention  that  is  new  and  useful,  or  any  improvement,  is 
patentable.  To  be  **new"  it  nmst  be  something  more  than  a  mere 
meclianical  change  which  would  occur  to  any  mechanic;  but  this 
does  not  mean  that  an  invention  is  not  patentable  merely  because  it 
is  simple.  Some  of  the  most  valuable  patents  have  been  for  very 
simple  devices.  It  must  be  ''useful"  in  the  sense  that  it  is  opera- 
tive and  not  harmful.  A  mere  idea  is  not  patentable.  It  must  be 
embodied  in  a  substantial  form;  but  this  does  not  mean  that  the 
invention  must  have  been  put  to  actual  use.  It  is  enough  if  the 
invention  can  be  shown  in  a  drawing  and  described  so  that  another 
person  could  make  or  use  it. 

WHAT  CONSTITUTES  NOVELTY. 

An  invention,  to  be  patentable,  must  not  have  been  known  or 
used  by  others  in  this  country.  It  must  not  have  been  patented  or 
published  in  this  or  any  other  country.  It  mu£t  not  have  been  pub- 
licly used  or  sold  by  the  inventor  for  more  than  two  years  before 
application,  and  it  must  not  have  been  abandoned  by  him. 

COMBINATIONS. 

Combinations  are  patentable,  even  if  all  the  elements  are  old ;  but 
merely  putting  an  old  device  to  a  new  use  is  not  generally  i)atent- 
ablie.  Designs  are  likewise  patentable,  when  a  new  and  artistic 
result  is  attained. 

DURATION  AND  PROTECTION. 

A  patent  runs  for  seventeen  years  and  protects  the  patentee  against 
every  person  everywhere  in  the  United  States.  The  patentee  can 
sue  infringers  and  can  stop  the  infringement  by  injunction,  and  can 
recover  both  profits  and  damages. 


OH 


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W.  G.  YOUNG  MFG.  CO., 

17  HERMON  STREET. 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


349 


; 


WRITE  FOR  PRICES  AND  CATALOGUE  OF  OTHER  MACHINES. 


348 


PURCHASE  AND  SALE  OF  PATENTS. 

Patents  may  be  bought  and  sold  the  same  as  any  personal  prop- 
erty. Assignments  and  licenses  should  be  recorded  in  the  patent 
office.  Part  interests  may  be  bought  and  sold ;  and  the  owner  of  a 
part  interest,  however  small,  can  use  the  entire  invention  indepen- 
dent of  the  other  owner  and  without  his  sharing  the  profits. 

EMPLOYERS  AND  EMPLOYES. 

Employes,  as  much  as  employers,  are  entitled  to  their  own  inde- 
pendent inventions.  Mere  employment  gives  the  employer  no  title; 
but  if  the  employe  makes  his  invention  and  introduces  it  into  the 
shop  of  liis  employer,  the  employer  thereby  secures  a  shop-right  to 
use  it.  Contracts  between  employers  and  employes  concerning 
inventions  should  be  carefully  drawn. 

HOW  TO  OBTAIN  A  PATENT. 

Before  making  application  a  preliminary  search  should  be  made. 
The  patent  office  cannot  inform  the  inventor  whether  he  has  a  new 
invention  until  he  has  been  to  all  the  expense  of  an  application. 
So  that  the  first  step  is  to  have  a  search  made  by  a  reputable  attor- 
ney.    The  expense  of  such  a  search  is  from  five  to  ten  dollars. 

HAVE  A  REPUTABLE  ATTORNEY. 

Do  not  employ  a  "patent  bureau"  or  a  "patent  agency."  Em- 
ploy a  home  solicitor  of  known  reputation.  Do  not  run  the  risk  of 
having  an  invention  stolen,  or  of  getting  a  patent  that  is  worthless. 
Do  not  employ  a  "no-patent-no-pay"  advertiser.  Cheap  work 
means  a  cheap  patent. 

DRAWING  THE  CLAIMS. 

Claims  must  be  carefully  drawn  ;  if  they  do  not  cover  the  inven- 
tion, it  is  lost.     The  claim  is  the  vital  part  of  the  patent. 

THE  COST  OP  THE  PATENT. 

The  patent  office  fees  are  $35.  Fifteen  dollars  must  be  paid  when 
the  application  is  made;  the  balance  within  six  months  after  allow- 
ance. A  good  attorney  charges  according  to  the  work  involved. 
From  $35  to  $50  covers  all  ordinary  cases. 

MODEL  AND  DRAWINGS. 

No  model  is  now  required.  The  drawings  can  be  made  either 
from  the  actual  device  or  from  sketches  or  working  drawings. 


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BEST  TEeTH  $S.OO    PER  SET 

New  VORK  DeNTAL  CO.. 

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DEAI.ER  IN 


FISH.  OYSTERS,  LOBSTERS  AND  CANNED  GOODS. 


No.  893  MAIN  ST. 


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Orders  called  for  and  delivered. 
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WE  MANUFACTURE.  BUY  AND  SELL 

BILLIARD  TABLES  AND  BOWLING  ALLEYS, 

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MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


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United  States  Postal  Reg^ulations. 

First  Class  Mail  Matter — Letters — This  class  includes  letters,  and 
anything  which  the  postmaster  cannot  ascertain  the  contents  with- 
out destroying  the  wrapper,  or  anything  unsealed  which  may  be 
wholly  or  partly  in  writing— except  manuscript  for  publication 
accompanied  by  proof  sheets.  Postage,  two  cents  each  ounce  or  for 
each  fraction  above  an  ounce.  On  local  or  drop  letters,  at  free 
delivery  offices,  two  cents.  At  offices  where  no  free  delivery  by  car- 
riers, one  cent.     Registration  fee  8c  in  addition  to  regular  postage. 

Second  Class — Regular  Publications — This  class  includes  all  news- 
papers, periodicals,  or  matter  exclusively  in  print  and  regularly 
issued  at  stated  periods  from  a  known  office  of  publication  or  news 
agency.     Postage,  one  cent  a  pound  or  fraction  thereof. 

Third  Class — Miscellaneous  Printed  Matter — Transient  newspapers 
and  periodicals,  one  cent  for  each  four  ounces  or  fraction  thereof. 
Mailable  matter  of  third  class  includes  printed  books,  circulars  or 
other  matter  wholly  in  print  (not  of  the  second  class),  proof  sheets 
and  manuscript  accompanying  the  same  and  postage  shall  be  paid  at 
the  rate  of  one  cent  for  each  two  ounes  or  fractional  part  thereof, 
and  shall  fully  be  prepaid  by  postage  stamps  affixed  to  said  matter. 

All  packages  of  matter  of  the  third  class  must  be  so  wrapped  or 
enveloped  that  their  contents  may  be  readily  and  thoroughly  exam- 
ined by  the  postmasters  without  destroying  the  wrappers. 

Fourth  Class — Merchandise,  Samples,  etc. — Mailable  matter  of  the 
fourth  class  includes  all  matter  not  embraced  in  the  first,  second  or 
third  classes,  which  is  not  in  its  form  or  nature  liable  to  destroy, 
deface  or  otherwise  damage  the  contents  of  the  mailbag,  or  harm  the 
person  of  anyone  engaged  in  the  postal  servica 

All  matter  of  the  fourth  class  is  subject  to  a  postal  charge  at  the  rate 
of  one  cent  an  ounce  or  fraction  thereof,  to  be  paid  by  stamps  affixed. 

Postal  Cards — Postal  cards  are  sold  at  a  fixed  rate  at  one  cent  (and 
two  cents  for  foreign)  each,  in  any  quantity.  Unclaimed  postal  cards 
are  never  returned  to  the  writer.  Anything  pasted  on  or  attached 
to  a  postal  card  subjects  it  to  letter  postage. 

Money  Orders — Orders  not  over  $10,  8c;  $10  to  $15.  10c;  $15  to 
$30,  15c;  $30  to  $40,  20;  $40  to  $50,  25c;  $50  to  $60,  30c;  $60  to 
$70,  35c;  $70  to  $80,  40c;  $80  to  $100,  45c. 

Foreign  Postage — Canada — Letters,  2c;  and  5c  on  all  letters  to 
all  countries  belonging  to  the  "  Univereal  Postal  Union." 


MAKERS  AND  RETAILERS 


...  OP  THE  .  .  . 


BE5T  CLOTHING  MADE, 

409  MAIN  ST.,  WORCESTER,  MASS. 


-    K.   TOLTV^KN 

LOCKSMITH    AND    HOUSEHOLD    REPAIRS. 

Electric  Work  nfRmimV^B^^^P^^v 

■■HflilMrr'EISiJVAiPvS^^R    Combination 
of  all  Kinds, 

Cash  Registers 


Telephone  or  Postal  Orders 
promptly  attended  to. 


and  Safe  Locks 

Changed  and 

Repaired,    WuBMSf^HlMSma^n^KSKi 

^^•^^^MmMaMmSm^MmmSiSiim  Repaired. 

509  Mam,  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

THE  UNION  SPRING  STEEL  fflRE  CUSHION 

Is  the  Best  OusUon  in  the  Market  for  Any  End  of  Seat  for 


Wagons,  Carriages,   Barges,    Chairs,    &c 


Orders  by  mail,  ex- 
press or  telegraph 
promptly  attended  to. 

They  can  be  made  any 
size  in  length  or  width 
wanted  and  can  be  used 
either  side  up.  and  are 
hooked  together  so  they 
cannot  get  out  of  order. 


Best  seat  in  use  for 
Railroad  Engineers  and 
Firemen. 

They  are  placed  on 
the  scat  and  are  used 
with  only  a  thin  cush- 
ion, or  a  blanket  on 
them,  and  in  wet 
weather  can  be  used 
alone. 


We  also  make  Spring  Mattresses  for   Beds.  Cribs.  Couches  and 
Ambulances,  Hotels  and  State  InsUtutlons. 


Manufactured  By 

KELLEY  d  CO.. 

509  MAIN  ST..  WORCESTER,  MASS. 


FRED.  E.  KELLEV, 
Manager. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


353 


.   National  Government. 

Congress  consists  of  two  branches ;  the  Senate  and  the  House  of 
Representatives. 

POWERS  AND  COMPOSITION  OF   THE  UNITED  STATES  SENATE. 

It  is  composed  of  two  Senators  from   each  State,  chosen  by  the 

Legislature  thereof,   for  a  term  of  six  years.     No  person  can  be 

elected  Senator  who  is  under  thirty  years  of  age,  and  who  has  not 

been  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  for  nine  years,  and  who  is  not, 
when  elected,  a  citizen  of  the  State  for  which  he  is  chosen.  The 
Senate  has  sole  power  to  try  impeachments,  and  when  sitting  for 
that  purpose  is  under  oath  like  courts  of  justice.  If  the  President 
be  tried,  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  is  to  preside.  The 
Senate  has  power  to  ratify  or  reject  treaties  with  foreign  powers,  and 
it  requires  the  concurrence  of  two-thirds  of  the  Senators  present  to 
authorize  the  President  to  make  a  treaty.  The  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Senate  is  necessary  to  confirm  appointments  made  by  the 
President.  The  Senate  cannot  originate  any  bill  for  raising  revenue, 
but  may  propose  amendments  or  concur  in  such  bill.  The  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States  is  ex-officio  president  of  the  Senate. 
In  his  absence  the  Senate  elects  a  president  pro  tempore.  It  further 
elects  a  secretary  to  record  its  proceedings,  a  sergeant-at-arms  to 
attend  and  to  arrest  offenders,  and  a  doorkeeper  to  guard  the 
entrance  to  the  Senate  Chamber. 

THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES 

Is  composed  of  members  chosen  every  second  year  by  the  people  of 
the  several  States.  The  Representatives  are  apportioned  among  the 
several  States  according  to  their  respective  number  of  inhabitants. 
After  each  census.  Congress  re-adjusts  the  proportion  of  population 
entitled  to  a  representative,  and  fixes  anew  the  whole  number  of 
representatives,  leaving  the  manner  and  time  of  state  apportionment 
to  the  States  themselves.  A  representative  must  have  attained  the 
age  of  twenty-five  years,  and  must  be  a  citizen,  and  an  inhabitant 
of  the  State  for  which  he  is  chosen.  The  House  chooses  its  own 
speaker,  clerk,  sergeant-at-arms,  door-keeper,  and  other  officers.  It 
has  exclusive  power  to  originate  bills  for  raising  revenue. 

In  ordinary  legislative  matters  the  powers  and  duties  of  both 
Houses  of  Congress  are  legislative  and  advisory,  but  not  judicial 
and  executive. 


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M.  J.  PINNIGAN, 


IMPORTER  AND 


ffHOLESflLE  LIQUOR  DEALER, 

63.  65.  67  FRANKLIN  ST.. 


TELEPHONE   55T. 


R  TV^HSS, 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


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WHOLESALE  LIQUOR  DEALERS. 

CALIFORNIA  NA/INES 

$1.00  PER  GAL.  AND  35  CENTS  PER  OT. 

BOWLER  BROS'. 


ALES  AND  PORTER, 


S1.00  PER  CASE. 


37  and  39  WASHINGTON  SQR. 

354 


Law  of  Partnership. 

Partnerships  may  be  either  general  or  special.  In  general  part- 
nerships, money  invested  ceases  to  be  individual  property.  Each 
member  is  made  personally  liable  for  the  whole  amount  of  debts 
incurred  by  the  company.  The  company  is  liable  for  all  contracts 
or  obligations  made  by  individual  members. 

Special  partners  are  not  liable  beyond  the  amount  contributed. 

A  person  may  become  a  partner  by  allowing  people  generally  to 
presume  that  he  is  one,  as  by  having  his  name  on  the  sign  or  parcel 
or  in  the  bills  used  in  the  business. 

A  sliare  or  specific  interest  in  the  profits  or  loss  of  a  business,  as 
remuneration  for  labor,  may  involve  one  in  the  liability  of  a  partner. 

In  case  of  bankruptcy,  the  joint  estate  is  first  applied  to  the  pay- 
ment of  partnership  debts,  the  surplus  only  going  to  the  creditors 
of  the  individual  estate. 

A  dissolution  of  partnership  may  take  place  under  express  stipu- 
lations in  the  articles  of  agreement,  by  mutual  consent,  by  the  death 
or  insanity  of  one  of  the  firm,  by  award  of  arbitrators,  or  by  court 
of  equity  in  cases  of  misconduct  of  some  member  of  the  firm. 

A  partner  signing  his  individual  name  to  negotiable  paper,  which 
is  for  the  use  of  the  partnership  firm,  binds  all  the  partners  thereby. 
Negotiable  paper  of  the  firm,  even  given  on  private  account  by  one 
of  the  partners,  will  hold  all  the  partners  of  the  firm,  when  it  passes 
into  the  hands  of  the  holders,  who  are  ignorant  of  the  fact  attend- 
ing its  creation. 

Partnership  effects  may  be  bought  and  sold  by  a  partner;  he  may 
make  contracts;  may  receive  money;  indorse,  draw  and  accept  bills 
and  notes,  and,  while  this  may  be  for  his  own  private  account,  if  it 
apparently  be  for  the  use  of  the  firm,  his  partners  will  be  bound  by 
his  action,  provided  the  parties  dealing  with  him  were  ignorant  of 
the  transaction  being  on  his  private  account;  and  thus  representa- 
tion or  misrepresentation  of  a  partner,  having  relation  to  business 
of  the  firm,  will  bind  the  members  in  the  partnership 

In  case  of  death,  the  surviving  partner  must  account  to  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  deceased. 


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JOHN  H.  SHKLJAN. 

PHOTOGRAPHER. 

All  Kinds  of  Work  in  the  Photographic  Line. 

SPECIKUTIESi 

Best  Cabinets  at  Reasonable  Prices.    Interiors,    Exteriors,    Flash    LIghte. 

Machinery,  all  kinds  of  Amateur  Work,  etc. 

7^1-1-  OROeRS  RR07WTRTLY  KTTENDeO  TO. 

Studio,  No.  337  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


D.  W.  ROBBINS. 


D.  W.  ROBBINS,  Jr. 


AMERICAN  NICKEL  WORKS, 

ELECTROPLATING,  EMERY  I^LISHINO,  BUFFING  AND  REFINISHING 

OP  HUL.  KINDS  OP  TUIETKUS. 

N.  B.    Our  Specialty:    Promptness,  and  Up  to  Date  in  all  the  Branches, 

91  Foster  Street,        .        .        .        Worcester,  Mass. 


F.  iA£.  COLLIER  St  CO., 


MANUFACTURERS  OF 


GAS  HEATING  APPARATUS 


RND 


LAUNDRY  MACHINERY, 

B6  POSTER  STREET. 

CABLE  ADDRESS  "COLLIER"  WESTERN  UNION  CODE. 


LADIES'  FASHIONABLE  TAILOR  AND  DRESSMAKER, 

Formerly  of  Paris  and  New  York. 

Ladies'  Dresses  of  all  kinds  made  in  the  most  Stylish  and 

Artistic  Manner. 


All  Kinds  of  Fur  Work 
Made  and  Repaired. 


Day  Bflildiog,  3N  Main  Street, 

ROOMS  79  and  80. 
356 


Worcester,  Mass., 

Telephone  795-3. 

Open  Evenings  till  8:30. 


357 


Legal  Points. 

The  following  rules  of  common  law  are  so  general,  and  so  little 
modified  by  statute,  as  to  practically  prevail  in  all  parts  of  the  coun- 
try, and  may  be  of  use  to  all  to  know : 

No  man  may  profit  by  his  own  wrong;  that  is,  no  one  can  by  law 
enforce  a  claim  arising  from  his  own  wrongful  acts. 

A  contract  is  an  agreement  between  two  or  more  persons  compe- 
tent to  contract,  by  which,  for  a  valuable  consideration,  some  lawful 
thing  is  or  is  not  to  be  done  within  a  specified  time. 

Verbal  contracts,  with  but  few  exceptions,  are  good  in  law,  but 
are,  of  course,  more  diflScult  of  proof  than  written  ones. 

Contracts  about  real  estate  (except  leases  for  a  less  term  than  one 
year),  or  a  contract  to  answer  the  debt,  default  or  miscarriage  of 
another,  or  if  the  subject  of  the  contract  is  not  to  be  performed 
within  a  year,  must  be  in  writing  and  under  seal. 

Guarantors  of  contracts  are  released  by  the  alteration  of  the  terms 
of  the  contract  without  their  consent. 

A  note  obtained  by  fraud,  under  duress,  or  from  one  intoxicated, 
is  voidable,  except  as  to  an  innocent  purchaser  for  value. 

The  loss,  destruction  or  theft  of  a  note  does  not  release  the  maker 
or  endorser,  if  proper  notice  is  given  them  within  a  reasonable  time. 

Endorsers  are  released,  if  not  notified  of  the  dishonor  of  a  note, 
within  a  reasonable  time. 

A  note  bears  interest  before  maturity  only  when  so  expressed  on 
its  face. 

All  notes  and  contracts  made  by  minors  are  voidable,  except 
given  for  necessaries. 

A  contract  obtained  by  fraud  cannot  be  avoided  by  the  perpetrator 
of  the  fraud. 

A  contract  to  work  for  a  specified  time,  for  a  specified  sum,  is  an 
entire  contract,  and  the  whole  work  must  be  performed  before  pay- 
ment can  be  enforced. 

An  agent  is  authorized  to  act  for  his  principal,  who  will  be  bound 
by  all  the  acte  of  his  agent. 


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MILLER, 


nj       Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealer  in 


Dealer  in  Hay  on 


C^TVYTvnssiQN 


CASH  STORES: 


2?     ^^  ^  Washington  Square,  Telephone  659-3 
m     ^gjjgi^jIgPoolnjt.,  Tel.  602-5.  Worcester. 
3f     and  Main  Street,  Hudson 

MILL  AND  ELEVATOR  AT  WEST  B0YL8T0N. 


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FLOUR,  GRAIN,    .    .    . 

MILL  FEEDS 

BAILED  HAY  AND  STRAW. 


Telephone  914-2. 


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359 


A  noti)  dated  on  Sunday  is  void. 

Each  individual  in  partnership  is  responsible  for  the  whole  amount 
of  debts  of  the  firm.  Ignorance  of  the  law  excuses  no  one.  It  is  a 
fraud  to  conceal  a  fraud.  It  is  illegal  to  compound  a  felony.  The 
law  compels  no  one  to  do  impossibilities.  An  agreement  without 
consideration  is  void.  Signatures  in  lead  pencil  are  good  in  law.  A 
receipt  for  money  is  not  legally  conclusive.  The  acts  of  one  partner 
bind  all  the  others.  Contracts  made  on  Sunday  cannot  be  enforced. 
A  contract  made  with  a  lunatic  is  void. 


How  to  Mix  Paints  for  Tints. 

For  Brown,  mix  Red  and  Black. 

For  Rose,  mix  Lake  and  White. 

For  Chestnut,  mix  White  and  Brown. 

For  Purple,  mix  White,  Blue  and  Lake. 

For  Pearl,  mix  Blue  and  Lead  Color. 

For  Pink,  mix  White  and  Carmine. 

For  Silver  Gray,  mix  Indigo  and  Lamp-Black. 

For  Lead  Color,  mix  White  and  Lamp-Black. 

For  Chocolate,  mix  Black  and  Venetian  Red. 

For  Bright  Green,  mix  White  and  Green. 

For  French  White,  mix  Purple  and  AVhite. 

For  Dark  Green,  mix  Light  Green  and  Black. 

For  Pea  Green,  mix  White  and  Green 

For  Brilliant  Green,  mix  White  and  Emerald  Green. 

For  Orange,  mix  Red  and  Yellow. 

For  Pearl  Gray,  mix  White,  Blue  and  Black. 

For  Flesh  Color,  mix  White,  Lake  and  A^ermilion. 

For  Drab,  mix  Umber,  White  and  Venetian. 

For  Cream,  mix  White,  Yellow  and  Venetian. 

For  Olive,  mix  Red,  Blue  and  Black. 

For  Buff,  mix  Yellow,  White  and  a  little  Venetian. 


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COPPER  ROOF  FUNNEL. 


Note  Its  Construction,  .  .  . 


Which  assures  a  brass  screen  always  in  posi- 
tion, together  with  perfect  drainage  from  bed  of 
roof.  And  by  the  u!*e  of  extra  heavy  hard 
rolled  copper,  beaded  and  flanged  as  shown, 
the  necessity  of  procuring  and  attaching  sepa- 
rate cast  end-ferrules  is  done  away  with.  This 
feature  alone  proves  it  iiidispensible. 


Get  them  through  your  Jobber. 


New  England  Steel  Roofing  Co., 


WORCESTER,  HASS. 


BEN.  J.   BERNSTROTV^, 
UNDERTAKER,  EMBALMER  AND  FUNERAL  DIRECTOR. 


Office,  Residence,  Wareroomsand  Shop, 
Connected  by  Telephone. 


JUSTICE   OF=   THE  F>EHCE. 

No.  1 13  Thomas  Street, 
Ia£ORCESTER,  7V\:hSS. 


360 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


361 


What  is  the  Single  Tax  ? 

The  following  has  been  adopted  as  the  official  statement  of  the 
single  tax  principle  by  the  advocates  thereof,  the  late  Henry  George, 
chairman : 

We  assert,  as  our  fundamental  principle,  the  self-evident  truth 
enunciated  in  the  Declaration  of  American  Independence,  that  all 
men  are  created  equal  and  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain 
inalienable  rights. 

We  hold  that  all  men  are  equally  entitled  to  the  use  and  enjoy- 
ment of  what  God  has  created,  and  of  what  is  gained  by  the  general 
growth  and  improvement  of  the  community  of  which  they  are  a 
part.  Therefore,  no  one  should  be  permitted  to  hold  natural  oppor- 
tunities without  a  fair  return  to  all  for  any  special  privilege  thus 
accorded  to  him,  and  that  that  value  which  the  growth  and  improve- 
ment of  the  community  attaches  to  land  should  be  taken  for  the 
use  of  the  community ;  that  each  is  entitled  to  all  that  his  labor 
produces;  therefore,  no  tax  should  be  levied  on  the  products  of  labor. 

To  carry  out  these  principles,  we  are  in  favor  of  raising  all  public 
revenues  for  National,  State,  county  and  municipal  purposes  by  a 
single  tax  upon  land  values,  irrespective  of  improvement,  and  all 
the  obligations  of  all  forms  of  direct  and  indirect  taxation. 

Since  in  all  our  States  we  now  levy  some  tax  on  the  value  of  land, 
'  the  singe  tax  can  be  instituted  by  the  simple  and  easy  way  of  abol- 
ishing, one  after  another,  all  other  taxes  now  levied,  and  commen- 
surately  increasing  the  tax  on  land  values  until  we  draw  upon  that 
one  source  for  all  expenses  of  government,  the  revenue  being  divided 
between  local  government,  State  government  and  the  general  gov- 
ernment, as  the  revenue  from  direct  tax  is  now^  divided  between  the 
local  and  State  governments,  or  by  a  direct  assessment  being  made 
by  the  general  government  upon  the  States  and  paid  by  them  from 
revenues  collected  in  this  manner. 

The  single  tax  would : 

1st.  Take  the  weight  of  taxation  off  the  agricultural  districts 
where  land  has  little  or  no  value,  irrespective  of  improvements,  and 


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COPPER  ROOF  FUNNEL. 


Note  its  Construction,  .  .  . 


Which  assures  a  brass  screen  always  in  posi- 
tion, together  with  perfect  drainage  from  bed  of 
roof.  And  l)y  the  use  of  extra  heavy  hard 
rolled  copper,  beaded  and  flanged  as  shown, 
the  necessity  of  procuring  and  attaching  sepa- 
rate cast  end-ferrules  is  done  away  with.  This 
feature  alone  proves  it  indispensible. 


Get  them  through  your  Jobber. 


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New  England  Steel  Roofing  Co., 


WORCESTER,  HASS. 


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BEN.  J.   BERNSTR07VY, 
UNDERTAKER,  EMBALMER  AND  FUNERAL  DIRECTOR. 


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Office,  Residence,  Wareroonisand  Shop. 
Connected  by  Telephone. 


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JUSTICE   OP   THE   REKCE. 

No.  1 13  Thomas  Street, 

^azorcester,  7vv:kss. 

360 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


301 


What  is  the  Single  Tax  ? 

The  following  has  been  adopted  as  the  official  statement  of  the 
single  tax  principle  by  the  advocates  thereof,  the  late  Henry  George, 
chairman : 

We  assert,  as  our  fundamental  principle,  the  self-evident  truth 
enunciated  in  the  Declaration  of  American  Independence,  that  all 
men  are  created  equal  and  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain 
inalienable  rights. 

We  hold  that  all  men  are  equally  entitled  to  the  use  and  enjoy- 
ment of  what  God  has  created,  and  of  what  is  gained  by  the  general 
growth  and  improvement  of  the  community  of  which  they  are  a 
part.  Therefore,  no  one  should  be  permitted  to  hold  natural  oppor- 
tunities without  a  fair  return  to  all  for  any  special  privilege  thus 
accorded  to  him,  and  that  that  value  w^hich  the  growth  and  improve- 
ment of  the  community  attaches  to  land  should  be  taken  for  the 
use  of  the  community ;  that  each  is  entitled  to  all  that  his  labor 
produces;  therefore,  no  tax  should  be  levied  on  the  products  of  labor. 

To  carry  out  these  principles,  we  are  in  favor  of  raising  all  public 
revenues  for  National,  State,  county  and  municipal  purposes  by  a 
single  tax  upon  land  values,  irrespective  of  improvement,  and  all 
thp  obligations  of  all  forms  of  direct  and  indirect  taxation. 

Since  in  all  our  States  we  now  levy  some  tax  on  the  value  of  land, 
■  the  singe  tax  can  be  instituted  by  the  simple  and  easy  way  of  abol- 
ishing, one  after  another,  all  other  taxes  now^  levied,  and  commen- 
surately  increasing  the  tax  on  land  values  until  w^e  draw  upon  that 
one  source  for  all  expenses  of  government,  the  revenue  being  divided 
between  local  government.  State  government  and  the  general  gov- 
ernment, as  the  revenue  from  direct  tax  is  now  divided  between  the 
local  and  State  governments,  or  by  a  direct  assessment  being  made 
by  the  general  government  upon  the  States  and  paid  by  them  from 
revenues  collected  in  this  manner. 

The  single  tax  would : 

1st.  Take  the  weight  of  taxation  off  the   agricultural    districts 
where  land  has  little  or  no  value,  irrespective  of  improvements,  and 


H.  F.  n.  LANGB,  .  . 

.  .  FLORAL  DECORATOR. 


294  TWTKIIS  STREET. 


MCORCESTE 


We  grow  our  Flowers  in  Worcester  and  wish 
to  sell  them  here  at  the  lowest  llvmrprlcer 


R.  7WTKSS. 
Telephone  235-3. 


Worcester  Cut  Glass  Works. 


The  manufacture  of  Rich  Cut  Glass 
has   become    a  notable  industry    in 
Worcester     In  the    manufacture   of 
Artistic  Modern  Glassware  the  most 
important  part  of  the  manipulation  is 
the  cutting.     It  is  in  this  process  that 
the  higliest  skill  of  the  Glass  Cutters' 
art  18  most  clearly  shown.     When  the 
glass  cutter  receives  the  glass  from 
the  glassmaker  it  is  perfectly  plain  or 
S/^«\, '«  k"own  in  the  trade    as   a 
^lo 'i       y\^   glasscutter    takes    the 
?'«"•?  and  dra/ts  the  design  in  squares 
the  design  he  intends  cutting.    The  first  r^rnol^oJ.?^^^^^^  ''"^«'  according  to 
wheel  and  sand  which  cutf  into  the  gPasrilnT'"*^  ''  ''^"^^^'"^  ^'*»^  ^^^ 
natural  stones,  the  stones  going  into  the  roimh  p^?«  ^^P'^^T  u^'  smoothing  with 
ing  them  smooth.    Third  proce«»s    noli.S     -V^  ^^^'1^  *"  ^^«  ^^nd  awav.  leav- 
and  puttv  powder,  bringinrthe  glass  bacf  to't 'n^^''^,  ^h^^'^' .Pumice 'stone 
lustre  and  brilliancy.  ^         ^^^  *^  *^^  natural  color  with  additional 

Rich  Cut  Class.  Suitable  for  Marriage  and  Birthday  Presents. 

WORCESTER  CUT  GLASS  WORKS, 

WORKSHOP  irr    TinrM.»..    « 

AND  sAi^ESRooM.  U  HERMAN  STREET,  NEAR  MAIN. 

362 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


363 


put  it  Oil  towns  and  cities  where  bare  land  rises  to  a  value  of  mil- 
lions of  dollars  per  acre. 

2d.  Dispense  with  a  multiplicity  of  taxes  and  a  horde  of  tax 
gatherers,  simplify  government  and  greatly  reduce  its  cost. 

3d.  Do  away  with  the  fraud,  corruption  and  gross  inequality  insep- 
arable from  our  present  methods  of  taxation,  which  allow  the  rich  to 
escape  while  they  grind  the  poor. 

4th.  Give  us  with  all  the  world  as  perfect  freedom  of  trade  as  now 
exists  between  the  States  of  our  Union,  thus  enabling  our  people  to 
share  through  free  exchanges  in  all  the  advantages  which  nature  has 
given  to  other  countries,  or  which  the  peculiar  skill  of  other  people 
has  enabled  them  to  attain.  It  would  destroy  the  trusts,  monopolies 
and  corruptions  which  are  the  outgrowth  of  the  tariff. 

5th.  It  would,  on  the  other  hand,  by  taking  for  public  use  that 
value  which  attaches  to  land  by  reason  of  the  growth  and  improve- 
ment of  the  community,  make  the  holding  of  land  unprofitable  to 
the  mere  owner  and  profitable  only  to  the  user.  It  would  thus  make 
it  impossible  for  speculators  and  monopolists  to  hold  natural  oppor- 
tunities unused  or  only  half  used,  and  would  throw  open  to  labor 
the  illimitable  field  of  employment  which  the  earth  offers  to  man. 
It  would  thus  solve  the  labor  problem,  do  away  with  involuntary 
poverty,  raise  wages  in  all  occupations  to  the  full  earnings  of  labor, 
make  over-production  impossible  until  all  human  wants  are  satisfied. 
render  labor-saving  inventions  a  blessing  to  all,  and  cause  such  an 
enormous  production  and  such  an  equitable  distribution  of  wealth 
as  would  give  to  all  comfort,  leisure  and  participation  in  the  advan- 
tages of  an  advancing  civilization.  " 

With  respect  to  monopolies  other  than  monopoly  of  land,  we  hold 
that  when  free  competition  becomes  impossible,  as  in  telegraphs, 
railroads,  water  and  gas  supplies,  etc.,  such  business  becomes  a  proper 
social  function  which  should  be  controlled  and  managed  by  and  for 
the  whole  people  concerned  through  their  proper  government,  local, 
State,  or  national,  as  may  be. 


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«: 


H.  F.  M.  LANCE,  .  . 

.     FLORAL  DECORATOR. 


294  7UYKI1N   STReET, 


We  grow  our  Flowers  in  Worcester  and  wish 
to  sell  them  here  at  the  lowest  living  prices 


irtiORCESTER,  TWTHSS. 
Telephone  235-3. 

TRVJJS. 


Worcester  Cut  Glass  Works. 


The  manufacture  of  Rich  Cut  Glass 
has   become    a   notable  industry    in 
UorcePter.     In   the    manufacture    of 
Artistic  Modern  (i  hiss  ware  the  most 
important  part  of  the  manipulation  is 
the  cutting.     It  is  in  tliis  process  that 
the  highest  skill  of  the  (ilass  Cutters' 
art  is  most  clearly  shown.     When  the 
glass  cutter  receives  the  glass  from 
the  glassmaker  it  is  perfectly  plain  or 
what  IS   known   in   the  trade    as    a 
«ank.     The    glasscutter    takes    the 
Blank  and  drafts  the  design  in  squares 
the  design  he  intends  cutting     The  fir«t  nm/"     ;"tersecting   lines,  according  to 
wheel  and  sand   which  cujf  intrtl  e  gl^^r^L^^^^^^^^  ''  "-^'^g^^ing  with  leel 

natural  stones,  the  stones  going  into  the  rout},  ^?«  ?! P'^'^'^.f  .'^  «'"oothing  with 
ing  them  smooth.  Third  process  no li. Sum  ^^'"'1^  ^"  K^'""  '^"^  a^'^^.  '^av- 
and  puttv  powder,  bringing  the  glass  back  \  L  '''^'^''",  '''^]^^^'^  P""^'^^  «t«ne 
lustre  and  brilliancy.  ^         ^^^'^  ^^  ^^^  natural  color  with  additional 

Rich  Cut  Class,  Suitable  tor  Marriage  and  Birthday  Presents 

WORCESTER  CUT  GLASS  WORKS, 

WORKSHOP  i«    Tfr-nitn.,    « 

AND  SAI.ESROOM.  \J  HERMAN  STREET,  NEAR  MAIN. 

3(32 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


303 


put  it  oil  towns  and  cities  where  bare  land  rises  to  a  value  of  mil- 
lions of  dollars  per  acre. 

2d.  Dispense  with  a  multiplicity  of  taxes  and  a  horde  of  tax 
gatherers,  simplify  government  and  greatly  reduce  its  cost. 

3d.  Do  away  with  the  fraud,  corruption  and  gross  ine(piality  insep- 
arable from  our  present  methods  of  taxation,  which  allow  the  rich  to 
escape  while  they  grind  the  poor. 

4th.  Give  us  with  all  the  world  as  perfect  freedom  of  trade  as  now 
exists  between  the  States  of  our  Union,  thus  enabling  our  people  to 
share  through  free  exchanges  in  all  the  advantages  which  nature  has 
given  to  other  countries,  or  which  the  peculiar  skill  of  other  people 
has  enabled  them  to  attain.  It  would  destroy  the  trusts,  monopolies 
and  corruptions  which  are  the  outgrowth  of  the  tariff. 

5th.  It  would,  on  the  other  hand,  by  taking  for  public  use  that 
value  which  attaches  to  land  by  reason  of  the  growth  and  improve- 
ment of  the  community,  make  the  holding  of  land  unprofitable  to 
the  mere  owner  and  profitable  only  to  the  user.  It  would  thus  make 
it  impossible  for  speculators  and  monopolists  to  hold  natural  oppor- 
tunities unused  or  only  half  used,  and  would  throw  open  to  labor 
the  illimitable  field  of  employment  which  the  earth  off'ers  to  man. 
It  w^ould  thus  solve  the  labor  problem,  do  away  with  involuntary 
poverty,  raise  wages  in  all  occupations  to  the  full  earnings  of  labor, 
make  over-production  impossible  until  all  human  wants  are  satisfied, 
render  labor-saving  inventions  a  blessing  to  all,  and  cause  such  an 
enormous  production  and  such  an  equitable  distribution  of  wealth 
as  would  give  to  all  comfort,  leisure  and  participation  in  the  advan- 
tages of  an  advancing  civilization. 

With  respect  to  monopolies  other  than  monopoly  of  land,  we  hold 
that  when  free  competition  becomes  impossible,  as  in  telegraphs, 
railroads,  w^ater  and  gas  supplies,  etc.,  such  business  becomes  a  proper 
social  function  which  should  be  controlled  and  managed  by  and  for 
the  wdiole  people  concerned  through  their  proper  government,  local, 
State,  or  national,  as  may  be. 


(I 


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i 


Stephen  C.  Earlb. 


Clbllan  W.  Fisher 


EARLE I  FISHER, 

ARCHITECTS. 

m  STATE  MUTUAL  BUILDING. 


WORCESTER.  MASS. 


BilRKER  I  N0UR8E, . . . 


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•    • 


OflBces:    No.  425  Main  Street,  Corner  of  Front  Street, 
WORCESTER.  MASS. 


Albert  A.  Barker. 

P.  O.  Box  784. 


Walter  b.  Nourse. 
Telephone  324—12. 


7K.    7K,    BARKER. 

Solicitor  of  American  and  Foreign  Patents. 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


365 


V 


364 


Legal  Points  by  a  Supreme  Court  Lawyer. 

Probably  three  out  of  every  five  lawsuits  could  be  avoided  if 
people  had  known  the  legal  effect  of  some  act  of  theirs.  It  is  hoped 
that  the  following  may  supply  the  necessary  information  and  thus 
save  trouble  and  expense. 

The  advice  on  matters  in  the  following  pages  has  been  acquired  at 
a  great  expense,  and  is  absolutely  correct.  It  can  be  relied  upon  as 
such: 

NEGOTIABLE  INSTRUMENTS. 

Introduction — The  laws  governing  mercantile  transactions,  and 
particularly  such  as  relate  to  negotiable  instruments,  are,  in  the  main, 
of  very  ancient  origin,  and  are  derived  for  the  most  part  from  the 
well  established  usages  of  merchants,  which  have  been  adopted, 
sanctioned  and  confirmed  by  the  courts,  and  in  many  instances 
re-declared  by  the  statute.  These  usages  and  customs  constitute 
what  is  called,  in  the  language  of  the  books,  the  law-merchant. 

Promissory  Notes — A  note  of  hand,  as  it  is  called,  is  a  written 
promise  to  pay  to  a  person  certain,  his  order  or  bearer,  at  a  specified 
time,  a  given  sum  of  money.  To  render  it  negotiable,  that  is,  so 
that  it  may  be  transferred  by  endorsement  or  delivery,  it  must  be  pay- 
able to  "order"  or  "bearer,"  and  unless  these  words  appear  it  will 
not  be  negotiable.  Further,  the  promise  must  be  absolute  and 
uncoupled  with  any  condition,  and  the  time  of  payment  must  be 
certain  and  not  dependent  upon  any  contingency.  Again,  the 
promise  must  be  for  a  definite  sum  and  must  be  payable  in  money. 
These  are  all  of  the  essence  of  negotiability.  Failing  in  any  of  the 
foregoing  particulars,  the  note  may  still  be  good  as  a  contract,  but 
it  will  not  be  a  negotiable  instrument. 

It  may  be  written  upon  anything  capable  of  receiving  written 
characters,  in  any  language  susceptible  of  translation,  and  with  any 
substance  that  will  leave  a  permanent  mark ;  hence  a  note  written 
in  pencil  is  just  as  valid  as  one  written  with  ink.  It  need  not  be 
'^ated,  for  delivery  gives  it  eff^ect,  although  a  date  is  customary  and 
proper,  and  when  no  time  is  specified  it  is  payable  on  demand.     It 


OUR  MOTTO:    Pure  Food.  Properly  Cook«l.  Qaick  Service 

L.dle.^.nd  cents'      ^     ^y  ^  ^,1^,^     >  Oents' 
Dining  Rooms, 


FRANK'S 


Qem  Nickel 
150  Front  St.         t  QUICK  LUNCH.  }  6  sJSJ  St"""** 

Frank's  Famous  Oriental  Drip  Coffee,  5  Cents. 

Lunches  Put  Up  to  Take  Out. 

MAMMOTH  OYSTER  STEW,  IS  CENTS 


HORACE  F.  BALL,  ..cces,«,ro 

HLZIRUS  BROiA^N, 

TRUCKING  AND  BOARDING  AND  FEEDING  STABLES. 

Lumber,  Iron,  Coal  and  General  Merchandise  Moved  on  Liberal  Terms. 
Particular  attention  given  to  Moving  Heavy  Freight.  Boilers.  Safe..  Etc.. 


23  THOTVmS  STRBBT, 
Telephone  246-2. 


WORCESTER,  MJSS. 


EVERETT_W.  DURG..  . 

JEWELER  ^^  ORTICIAN 

Diamonds,    Watches,    Jewelry,    Silverware,   Clocks 

and  Optical  Goods. 

Pine  Repairing  In  e«:h  department. 

Worcester,  Mass. 


Byes  Examined  Free. 

568  Main  Street, 


We  would  be  plea.sed  to  show  the  members  of  th#. 
trade  societies  and  their  friends  what  D?ma?s5eice 
can  produce  with  the  aid  of  modern  appUaiSs  and 
the  latest  methods  when  controlled  by*^**"*"*^**  «°<^ 

Graduate  Dentists. 

NEW  ENGLAND  DENTAL  CO, 

^^^^  245  Hain  street, 

ROOM  J.  COR.  CENTRAL  STREET. 

DR.  M.  H.  BURKE.  MGR.. 

WORCESTER.  MASS. 

366 


MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


367 


need  not  be  signed  at  the  bottom,  provided  the  name  of  the  maker 
elsewhere  appears  and  was  written  with  intent  to  bind,  as :  '*  I,  John 
Smith,  promise,"  etc.,  but  the  better  way  i.s  to  subscribe  the  note. 

The  payee  must  be  named  or  designated,  unless  the  note  is  drawn 
to  bearer,  and  if  drawn  to  the  maker's  own  order  possesses  no  validity 
until  he  has  endorsed  it.  A  note  payable  to  bearer  is  transferable  by 
simple  delivery  and  passes  from  hand  to  hand  without  anything 
further,  and  the  same  is  true  of  a  note  j)ayable  to  the  payee's  order 
after  he  has  endorsed  it.  In  such  a  case  any  holder  may  write  over 
such  indorsement  an  order  to  pay  to  himself  But  if  indorsed  in 
full,  that  is  to  pay  to  some  person  certain,  it  can  only  be  transferred 
by  the  subsequent  indorsement  of  such  designated  person. 

It  is  customary  to  write  notes  for  *'  value  received,"  but  this  is 
not  necessary,  for  a  negotiable  note  imports  a  consideration,  and, 
except  as  between  the  parties,  want  of  consideration  cannot  be  shown 
if  the  note  was  negotiated  in  good  faith  and  before  maturity,  while 
as  between  the  parties  consideration  must  always  be  disproved,  even 
though  expressed.  The  better  practice,  however,  is  to  write  them  as 
expressing  consideration. 

One  who  places  his  name  on  the  back  of  a  note  as  an  indorser 
thereby  enters  into  an  undertaking  with  his  assignee,  as  well  as  others 
into  whose  hands  the  note  may  come,  that  he  will  pay  it  if  the 
maker  does  not;  but  he  may  protect  himself  against  the  claims  of 
subsequent  indorsers  by  making  his  indorsement  "without  recourse." 
On  the  other  hand  a  party,  by  simply  receiving  and  passing  a  note 
while  under  a  blank  indorsement,  and  without  putting  his  name  to 
it,  assumes  no  responsibility  in  relation  to  it. 

The  holder  or  indorser  of  a  note  has  a  right  of  action  against 
every  one  whose  name  appears  on  the  same,  whether  as  maker  or 
indorser,  but  it  is  his  duty  to  present  the  note  promptly  at  maturity 
and  demand  payment;  if  payment  is  refused,  he  should  immediately 
notify  the  indorsers,  and  a  failure  so  to  do  will,  in  most  cases,  dis- 
charge the  indorser  from  liability.  He  should  further  use  all  reason- 
able means  to  compel  payment  of  the  maker  before  resorting  to  the 


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iiidorsers,  and  the  law  only  excuses  him  from  this  duty  where  at  the 
time  of  maturity  the  maker  is  hopelessly  insolvent,  and  a  suit  against 
him  would  be  unavailing. 

Prior  to  maturity,  any  person  who  takes  a  note  without  notice  of 
any  defect,  and  pays  therefor  a  valuable  consideration,  will  be  pro- 
tected against  any  equities  existing  in  favor  of  the  maker;  but  one 
who  takes  it  as  a  mere  volunteer,  paying  no  value  therefor,  or  one 
who  receives  it  after  it  has  become  due,  even  though  in  good  faith 
and  for  value,  will  take  it  subject  to  all  its  infirmities,  and  any  defense 
that  would  have  been  availing  as  against  the  payee  may  be  inter- 
posed as  to  them. 

Due  bills  are  not  distinguishable  in  general  effect  from  promissory 
notes,  and  are  governed  by  the  same  rules  and  assignable  in  the  same 
manner. 

Certificates  of  deposit  are,  in  effect,  promissory  notes,  and  subject 
to  the  same  rules  and  principles  applicable  to  that  class  of  paper. 

Warehouse  Receipts  are  not  techically  negotiable,  but  stand  in  the 
place  of  the  property  itself;  the  delivery  of  the  receipts  has  the  same 
effect,  in  transferring  the  title  to  the  property,  as  the  delivery  of  the 
property  itself.  They  are,  however,  frequently  declared  negotiable 
paper  by  statute. 

Drafts — The  draft,  or  bill  of  exchange,  is  the  oldest  form  of  nego- 
tiable paper,  and  is  said  to  have  existed  as  early  as  the  first  century. 
Drafts  are  governed  by  the  same  general  rules  as  notes,  and  all  the 
remarks  of  the  foregoing  paragraphs  concerning  negotiability  are 
equally  applicable  here. 

It  is  the  duty  of  a  holder  of  a  bill  to  present  it  for  acceptance 
without  delay,  and  if  it  is  payable  at  sight,  or  at  a  certain  time  after 
sight,  no  right  of  action  will  accrue  against  any  person  until  it  has 
been  so  presented.  If  it  be  not  accepted,  when  properly  presented, 
or  if  accepted,  be  not  paid  when  due,  the  further  duty  devolves  on 
the  holder  to  have  it  regularly  protested  by  a  notary  public.  This 
is  essential,  however,  only  in  case  of  foreign  bills,  and  is  not  required 
for  inland  exchange  or  notes.  Simple  notice  in  the  latter  case  is 
sufficient. 


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MANUFACTURERS  OF  ALL  KINDS  OF 


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FIRE  INSURANCE  AGENCY. 

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of  all  kinds,  in  Stock  or  Mutual  Companies. 

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Checks. — A  check  on  a  bank  is  a  species  of  bill  of  exchange,  but 
is  governed  by  somewhat  different  rules  from  the  ordinary  bill.  It 
need  not  be  presented  for  acceptance,  for  a  bank  is  bound  to  pay  at 
any  time  if  it  have  funds  of  the  drawer  on  deposit;  nor  is  it  mate- 
rial that  the  holder  delay  presentment  for  payment.  A  check 
should,  however,  be  presented  immediately ;  this  the  drawer  has  a 
right  to  expect,  and  the  delay  is  at  the  holder's  risk,  for  if  the  bank 
fails  in  the  meantime  the  loss  falls  on  him,  if  the  drawer  had  funds 
on  deposit  sufficient  to  have  paid  the  check  had  it  been  timely  pre- 
sented. Certifying  a  check  practically  amounts  to  an  acceptance 
and  binds  the  bank  as  an  acceptor. 

Checks  should  be  drawn  to  order  to  guard  against  loss  and  theft, 
and  at  the  same  time  it  acts  as  a  receipt  of  the  payee.  A  check  is 
not  a  payment  until  it  has  been  cashed. 

In  paying  a  forged  check  the  loss  falls  on  the  bank,  which  is  bound 
to  know  the  signature  of  its  own  depositors,  and,  in  like  manner,  if 
the  check  has  been  fraudulently  raised,  the  drawer  is  chargeable 
only  with  the  original  amount. 


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Hints  on  Banking. 

The  business  man  of  the  present,  in  order  to  meet  the  continually 
increasing  demands  upon  his  capabilities,  is  ever  studying  how  to 
save  time  aud  insure  correctness  by  systematizing  his  business  trans- 
actions in  the  most  complete  manner. 

The  bank  being  the  repository  of  the  funds  of  all  branches  of 
trade,  is  compelled  to  handle  a  very  large  amount  of  business  every 
day  with  the  utmost  accuracy  and  dispatch. 

The  average  person  who  patronizes  a  bank  does  not  realize  the 
amount  of  annoyance  and  unnecessary  labor  that  can  be  caused  the 
bank  officers  and  clerks  by  a  little  carelessness  or  want  of  informa- 
tion on  the  part  of  those  outside  of  the  counter. 

In  order  to  conduct  your  dealings  with  your  banker  in  an  intelli- 
gent manner  it  is  advisable  to  be  well  posted  on  the  everyday  cus- 
toms of  the  business.  To  place  before  the  depositor  in  a  compact 
form  some  information  which  is  likely  to  be  of  service  to  him  in 
everyday  intercourse  with  the  bank,  the  following  pages  have  been 
written.  It  is  further  to  be  desired  that  the  points  contained  herein 
may  serve  as  a  guide  to  those  unquainted  with  the  banking  business, 
and  lead  them  to  an  understanding  of  the  advantage  and  conven- 
ience of  relations  with  a  reliable  bank. 

TO  OPEN  AN  ACCOUNT. 

The  first  step  in  opening  an  account  is  to  secure  an  introduction 
to  the  manager  of  the  bank,  through  some  responsible  person  known 
to  him.  This  interview  will  disclose  to  him  the  probable  magnitude 
of  your  future  dealings  with  the  concern,  and  whether  your  account 
will  be  of  advantage  to  the  bank  or  merely  a  convenience  to  yourself. 

The  teller  who  takes  your  first  deposit  will  give  you  a  pass-book, 
the  credit  entries  on  which  will  always  be  made  by  a  responsible 
officer,  and  will  be  your  receipt  for  various  sums  deposited.  This 
book  should  be  left  at  the  bank  monthly  to  be  balanced,  and  will  be 
returned  to  you  on  application  a  day  or  two  later,  showing  your 
ballance,  accompanied  by  your  cancelled  checks.  It  is  your  duty  to 
examine  carefully  the  account  and  checks  and  report  at  once  any 


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possible  errors.  The  pass-book,  while  kept  by  the  customer,  is  really 
the  property  of  the  bank,  and  nothing  should  be  written  in  it  by  the 
depositor. 

On  opening  an  account  your  signature  will  be  taken  in  a  book  kept 
for  that  purpose,  and  to  avoid  confusion  all  subsequent  signatures 
and  endorsements  by  you  should  be  written  precisely  the  same.  .  For 
instance,  if  you  give  your  signature  to  the  bank  as  G.  W.  Smith,  do 
not  afterwards  sign  it  as  George  W.  Smith  or  G.  Washington  Smith. 

HOW  TO  MAKE  OUT  DEPOSIT  TICKETS. 

The  blank  deposit  tickets  furnished  by  the  bank  should  always  be 
filled  out  by  the  depositor  and  proved  by  the  teller;  this  serves  as  a 
double  check  on  the  transaction,  and  if  at  any  future  time  a  question 
should  arise  as  to  the  total  amount  deposited,  or  any  separate  item, 
the  ticket  in  your  own  hand-writing  can  be  produced  by  the  bank  as 
unquestionable  proof. 

The  cash  items  are  to  be  written  opposite  the  words  ''Gold,"  "Sil- 
ver," and  "Currency,"  in  proper  amounts,  and  the  checks,  drafts,  or 
other  paper  must  be  listed  separately  below. 

Write  the  figures  in  a  column,  add  it  up,  and  write  the  total 
amount  below. 

Present  your  pass-book,  deposit  ticket,  and  items  of  deposit  to  the 
Keceiving  Teller,  and  see  that  the  proper  amount  is  entered  to  your 
credit  in  your  book. 

PRESENT  CHECKS  FOR  PAYMENT  AS  SOON  AS  POSSIBLE. 

Always  present  checkf  for  payment  as  soon  as  possible.  Much 
annoyance,  and  sometimes  heavy  loss,  is  avoided  by  following  this 
rule.  In  the  first  place,  the  drawer  of  checks  usually  prefers  to  have 
them  paid  with  as  little  delay  as  possible,  so  he  does  not  have  to  keep 
track  of  outstanding  checks.  .  Secondly,  if  the  holder  of  a  check 
neglects  to  present  it  for  payment  at  once,  and  the  bank  fails  before 
he  has  done  so,  according  to  the  law  of  custom,  he  cannot  have 
recourse  to  the  maker  of  the  check,  if  more  than  a  reasonable  timi^ 
in  which  to  present  it  has  elapsed  since  the  check  was  given. 


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375 


As  a  further  illustration  of  the  advisability  of  presenting  checks 
for  payment  at  once,  a  case  is  cited  of  a  man  who  loaned  his  local 
school  board  the  sum  of  $500,  giving  his  check  for  the  money.  The 
check  was  not  presented  at  once,  and  the  bank  upon  which  it  was 
drawn  failed.  The  drawer  of  the  check,  claiming  that  he  had  virtu- 
ally loaned  the  cash,  brought  an  action  against  the  school  board  to 
recover  the  amount  of  the  loan,  and  won  his  case,  although  the 
defendants  never  had  a  dollar  of  the  money. 

ENDORSEMENTS. 

Endorsement  in  blank  is  simply  the  signature  of  the  payee  on  the 
back  of  a  check  or  other  paper.  In  depositing,  all  checks  should  be 
endorsed  by  the  depositor,  whether  payable  to  his  order  or  not. 
Endorsement  to  a  specified  person  should  read : 

Pay  to  the  order  of  John  Smith. 
(Signature  of  endorser.) 

The  instrument  is  then  payable  only  when  endorsed  by  the  last 
payee. 

The  legal  signature  of  a  person  who  cannot  write  is  made  by  mark 

in  the  following  manner : 

his 
JOHN     X     JONES, 
mark. 
Witness : 

A.  B.  Smith,  39  Broadway. 

The  signer  must  make  his  mark  in  the  presence  of  a  disinterested 
person,  who  must  witness  the  signature  in  the  manner  shown  above. 

An  endorsement  on  a  note  or  draft  is  an  agreement  to  become 
liable  for  the  payment  of  it  in  case  the  maker  fails  to  meet  it  at  the 
proper  time. 

CERTIFIED  CHECKS. 

A  certified  check  is  guaranteed  by  the  bank  on  which  it  is  drawn 
to  be  good  when  properly  endorsed.  This  guarantee  is  written  or 
stamped  across  the  face  and  signed  by  a  responsible  ofl&cer  of  the 
bank.  This  is  a  legal  acceptance,  and  binds  the  bank  to  pay  the 
check  whenever  presented. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS. 


Certified  checks  are  charged  to  the  drawer's  account  at  the  time 
they  are  certified,  so  as  to  preclude  all  possibility  of  having  no  funds 
to  meet  them  when  presented  for  payment.  It  is  strictly  against 
the  United  States  law  for  a  national  bank  to  certify  a  check  for  more 
than  the  amount  of  the  balance  to  the  credit  of  the  drawer.  A 
State  bank,  however,  can  do  this  at  its  own  risk,  unless  prohibited 
from  doing  so  by  the  law  of  the  state  in  which  the  bank  is  located. 
In  several  states,  however,  there  is  no  law  against  this  action  by  a 
State  bank. 

Certified  checks  circulate  as  cash,  but  no  one  is  compelled  to  receive 
them  in  payment  as  they  are  not  legal  tender. 

Remember  that  if  you  get  your  check  certified  and  wish  to  get 
another  for  a  different  amount,  it  will  be  a  very  unwise  proceeding 
on  your  part  to  destroy  either  one  or  the  other,  as  the  bank  will 
require  of  you  a  bond  of  indemnity  before  it  will  issue  a  duplicate, 
no  matter  how  truthful  you  may  be,  or  how  earnest  your  explana' 
tion  of  the  mistake. 

EXCHANGE. 

The  term  "  Exchange  "  means  simply  a  check  or  draft  drawn  by  a 
bank  in  one  city  on  its  correspondent  bank  in  another  city,  payable 
on  demand  to  the  order  of  the  person  named  on  the  face.  A  drafl  is 
bought  by  any  person  wishing  to  make  remittance  to  another  at  a 
distance,  and  the  sender  pays  the  face  of  the  draft  to  the  issuing 
bank,  m  addition  to  the  small  charge  for  the  accommodation. 

Drafts  should  be  made  payable  to  the  purchaser  and  endorsed  over 
to  the  parties  for  whom  the  money  is  intended.  This  custom  of  bank- 
ing exchange  forms  the  safest,  cheapest  and  most  convenient  mode 
of  transmitting  money  by  mail,  as  the  money  can  only  be  collected 
upon  proper  identification  and  endorsement,  and  if  lost  or  destroyed 
the  issuing  bank  will  give  a  duplicate  or  refund  the  money  after 
waiting  a  reasonable  time. 

INTEREST. 

Interest  is  the  premium  paid  for  the  use  of  money,  or  the  accumu- 
lation on  an  unpaid  debt.  It  is  calculated  by  counting  a  certain  per 
cent,  of  the  principal,  and  is  made  payable  at  stipulated  periods  dur- 
ing the  time  the  debt  or  loan  is  in  force. 


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If  interest  is  not  paid  when  due,  it  may  be  considered  as  part  of 
the  principal,  and  bear  interest  in  like  manner.  This  is  called  com- 
pound interest.  - 

LOST  PAPER. 

If  a  check  is  lost,  payment  should  be  stopped  at  once  by  notifying 
the  bank  of  the  fact.  Especially  should  this  be  done  if  the  check  is 
payable  to  bearer,  as  any  one  coming  into  possession  of  it  can  pre- 
sent it  for  payment,  and  the  bank  cannot  be  held  liable  to  the  right- 
ful owner,  unless  it  has  been  officially  notified  not  to  pay  the  check. 

If  a  check  is  lost  by  the  lawful  owner  thereof,  and  subsequently 
comes  into  the  hands  of  a  bona-fide  holder,  for  value,  and  without 
knowledge  that  it  has  been  lost,  he  is  entitled  to  receive  the  amount 
from  the  bank,  and  if  it  refuses  payment  by  reason  of  instructions 
to  that  effect  from  the  drawer,  the  holder  may  recover  the  amount 
from  the  drawer. 

DAYS  OF  GRACE. 

In  some  of  the  States  the  law  allows  the  payer  three  days  over  the 
stipulated  time  in  which  to  pay  promissory  notes  or  bills  of  exchange. 
This  time  is  called  "  Days  of  Grace."  In  New  York  State  the  *'days 
of  grace  "  have  been  abolished. 

IDENTIFICATION. 

A  very  necessary  banking  custom,  and  one  which  many  persons 
but  imperfectly  understand,  is  the  formality  of  identification. 

In  order  to  be  protected  against  the  dishonest  practices  of  unknow^n 

persons,  banks  are  compelled  to  require  that  all  strangers  shall  be 

introduced  by  some  responsible  acquaintance  of  the  bank  who  can 

vouch  for  the  character  and  integrity  of  the  other.     In  cases  where 

out-of-town  checks  or  checks  on  other  local  banks  are  presented  for 

payment,  the  bank  usually  requires  the  identifier  as  well  as  the  payee 

to  endorse  the  paper,  so  that  in  case  the  check  should  prove  worthless 

the  bank  will  be  protected  by  two  persons  instead  of  one. 

Identification  often  causes  annoyance  to  persons  unacquainted  in 
the  locality  of  the  bank,  but  it  is  not  only  a  protection  to  the  bank, 
but  to  all  honorable  persons  who  are  in  the  habit  of  giving  their 
checks  in  lieu  of  cash. 


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PROTEST. 

A  protest  is  a  legal  document  drawn  up  by  a  notiiry  public,  giving 
notice  of  non-payment  of  a  note,  draft,  or  bill  of  exchange. 

This  document  is  attached  to  the  dishonored  paper,  and  each 
endorser  is  officially  notified  that  payment  has  been  refused. 

In  leaving  paper  for  collection,  you  should  instruct  the  bank  defin- 
itely whether  or  not  to  protest  for  non-payment. 

DRAFTS  AND  ACCEPTANCES. 

A  very  common  method  of  collecting  accounts  is  by  means  of 
drafts.  These  can  be  drawn  either  payable  *^at  sight,"  or  at  a 
specified  time,  in  which  case  they  are  called  "time  drafts." 

When  a  time  draft  is  presented  by  the  collecting  bank,  it  is  cus- 
tomary for  the  drawee  to  acknowledge  the  obligation  by  writing 
across  the  face  of  the  paper  the  word  ^'Accepted,"  followed  by  the 
date  and  his  signature.  This  is  a  formal  acceptance  of  the  debt  and 
is  a  promise  to  pay  when  due. 

It  is  customary,  but  not  obligatory,  to  present  time  paper  for 
acceptance,  as  the  drawee  is  not  a  party  to  the  bill  until  the  same 
has  been  formally  accepted  by  him. 

CERTIFICATES  OF  DEPOSIT. 

A  certificate  of  deposit  is  a  paper  given  by  the  bank  in  return  for 
money  left  on  special  deposit.  Such  deposits  are  not  entered  in  the 
pass-book,  and  are  not  subject  to  check,  but  can  be  withdrawn  by 
returning  the  certificate.  A  certificate  of  deposit  is  both  a  receipt 
for  the  money  deposited  and  the  bank's  promise  to  pay  it  to  the 
proper  person  on  return  of  certificate  properly  endorsed. 

If  it  is  desired  to  withdraw  a  part  of  the  sum  deposited,  the  first 
certificate  is  cancelled  by  the  bank  and  another  is  issued  for  the  bal- 
ance left  on  deposit 

OVERDRAFTS. 

The  fact  of  your  having  kept  a  credit  balance  with  your  banker 
for  a  considerable  length  of  time  does  not,  as  some  persons  appear 
to  believe,  entitle  you  to  overdraw  your  account.  The  law  on  this 
point  is  very  clear  and  states  that  a  Cashier  or  Teller  has  no  right 


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to  pay  money  on  a  check  when  the  funds  of  the  drawer  are  insuffi- 
cient. It  further  states  that  the  drawer  of  the  check  is  a  party  to 
the  wrongful  act,  and  the  bank  can  recover  the  amount. 

In  handling  a  great  number  of  active  accounts  every  day,  it  is 
almost  impossible  to  prevent  over-drawing  in  a  few  cases,  but  it  is 
one  of  the  strictest  and  most  important  laws  of  banking  to  allow  no 
overdrafts. 

COLLECTIONS. 

The  collection  department  is  an  important  branch  of  a  bank's 
business,  and  of  great  convenience  to  its  customers.  Notes,  drafts 
and  all  negotiable  paper  will  be  received  for  collection,  and  it  is  the 
bank's  duty  to  notify  its  customers  promptly  of  the  payment  or 
refusal  of  all  collections. 

Notes  intended  for  collection  should  be  left  at  the  bank  several 
days  before  maturity. 

LOANS. 

Banks  are  always  ready  to  loan  money  on  proper  security  and 
in  reasonable  sums,  and  naturally,  will  give  precedence  to  the  appli- 
cation of  a  regular  customer  of  the  bank.  The  National  and  State 
law^s  governing  banking  regulate  to  a  certain  extent  what  kind  of 
security  a  bank  may  take,  so  that  some  institutions  are  compelled  to 
decline  what  others  would  readily  accept. 

The  depositor  is  at  liberty  to  offer  his  banker  any  paper  he  may 
want  discounted,  provided  it  is  in  his  opinion,  first-class  security,  and 
should  remember  that  the  banker  is  under  no  obligation  to  take  it, 
or  even  to  give  his  reasons  for  declining  to  do  so. 


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